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MEMORIALS 


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DECEASED  COMPANIONS  OF  THE  COMMANDERY  OF  THE 

STATE  OF  ILLINOIS,    MILITARY  ORDER  OF  THE 

LOYAL  LEGION  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 


From  May  8,  1879,  when  the  Commandery  was  Instituted, 
to  July  i, 


320    ASHLAND    BLOCK, 

CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 

1901. 


COMMITTEE. 

MAJOR  WILLIAM  ELIOT  FURNESS,  Chairman. 
GEN.  JOSEPH  B.   LEAKE, 

COL.  AREA  N.  WATERMAN, 

CAPT.   HENRY  V.  FREEMAN, 
CAPT.   EPHRAIM  A.  OTIS, 

LIEUT.  AMBROSE  S.  DELAWARE, 
MR.  JOHN  R.  MONTGOMERY. 


V- 


PREFACE. 

This  volume  will  serve  as  a  permanent  reminder  of  the  rapid 
march  "  beyond  the  veil  "  of  that  generation  which  fought  the 
battles  of  the  Union  in  the  great  Civil  War.      Memorials  of 
deceased  Companions  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Mili- 
-sP      tary  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States  have 
\      been  prepared  as  the  occasions  have  arisen,  and  are  repro- 
duced here  for  the  most  part  as   originally   printed.       They 
i        thus  reflect  in  some  measure  the  kindly  judgment  and  sincere 
f\f      sorrow  with  which  their  Companions  of  the  Commandery  have 
bidden  these  departed  members  "hail  and  farewell."     Some 
of  the  notices  in  the  volume  have  been  written  by  those  for 
__  whom  in  their  turn,  the  like  service  has  since  been  rendered. 
Differences  in  the  length  or  literary  character  of  the  memo- 
,  orials  do  not  by  any  means  indicate  differences  of  regard  in 
which  Companions  were  held.     They  are  due  to  other  causes, 
^such  as  residence  elsewhere,  or   to  the   fact   that   the  army 
"  service  of  some  deceased  Companions  had  not  come  within 
«b  the  personal  knowledge  and  observation  of  the  writers. 

Probably  none  of  the  surviving  members  of  the  Illinois 
(^  Commandery  will  fail  to  find  in  these  pages  names  of  some 
^•at  least  of  "the  men  we  think  of  with  tears;"  those  side  by 
•  side  with  whom  they  marched,  with  whom  they  bivouacked, 
^~  shared  rations  and  blankets  by  many  a  camp  fire,  and  shoulder 
-  to  shoulder  with  whom  they  breasted  storms  of  battle.    There 
are  others  also,  whom  we  first  met  as  members  of  the  Com- 
mandery, but  whom  we  came  to  know  and  love  not  only  be- 
cause of  honorable  records  as  soldiers,  but  because  of  what 
they  were  as  men;  men  whom  we  would  not  willingly  forget 
life  endures. 

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IV.  PREFACE. 

It  may  not  be  amiss  to  call  attention  to  the  honorable 
careers  in  civil  life  of  those  whose  names  appear  in  this  vol- 
ume. If  proof  were  needed  of  the  high  character  of  the 
citizen  soldiers  who  in  the  years  from  1861  to  1865  responded 
to  the  call  of  country,  it  can  be  found  in  the  brief  life  records 
here  reproduced. 

This  volume  owes  its  existence  to  the  generosity  of  our 
Companion  Lieutenant  Oliver  W.  Norton.  Believing  that 
these  notices  should  survive  in  more  enduring  form  than  as 
originally  published  in  general  orders,  he  has  himself  met 
the  expense  of  their  publication. 

The  funeral  services  of  an  "old  soldier  "  are  appropriately 
closed  at  the  grave  with  the  bugle  call,  known  as  "  taps,"  than 
which  none  more  musical  nor  impressive  fell  in  days  of  war 
upon  the  soldier's  ear,  as  at  the  close  of  day  its  melody 
floated  upon  the  evening  air  from  camp  to  camp.  The  call 
as  it  now  exists  was  first  played  by  Companion  Norton  when 
he  was  still  serving  as  a  brigade  bugler.  It  has  replaced  the 
call  originally  in  use  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  and 
we  cannot  better  close  this  introduction  than  by  giving  in  his 
own  words  an  account  of  its  origin. 

"During  the  first  year  of  the  Civil  War  the  call  for  'taps  ' 
in  general  use  in  the  army,  as  published  in  Casey's  tactics, 
was  the  one  which  is  now  used  as  a  part  of  the  long  call  for 
'tattoo.'  In  July,  1862,  I  was  brigade  bugler  at  the  head- 
quarters of  Butterfield's  Brigade,  MorrelPs  Division,  Fitz 
John  Porter's  Corps  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  One  day 
soon  after  the  seven  days  battles  on  the  Peninsula,  when  the 
Army  of-the  Potomac  lay  in  camp  at  Harrison's  Landing,  on 
the  James  River,  General  Butterfield  sent  for  me  to  come 
to  his  tent  and  bring  my  bugle.  When  I  arrived  he  said 
something  about  wishing  to  change  the  call  for  'taps,'  and 
asked  me  to  sound  for  him  on  the  bugle  the  call  which  he 
whistled.  I  complied  as  well  as  I  could  and  after  getting  the 
matter  to  his  satisfaction  wrote  out  the  notes  of  the  present 
call  on  the  back  of  an  envelope  which  I  happened  to  have  in 
my  pocket.  He  then  told  me  to  practice  the  call  during  the 


PREFACE. 


V. 


day  until  I  could  play  it  smoothly,  and  at  night  substitute  it 
for  the  regulation  call  for  'taps.'  The  next  day  buglers  from 
neighboring  brigades  came  to  me  for  copies  of  the  music.  I 
furnished  these  copies,  and  gradually  the  call  was  taken  up 
and  used  in  other  brigades  and  divisions  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac,  until  it  became  recognized  as  the  official  call.  My 
impression  is  that  no  general  order  making  the  substitute 
was  ever  issued,  but  it  rapidly  made  its  way  into  general  use 
throughout  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  by  virtue  of  the  beauty 
of  the  music.  The  soldiers,  who  had  a  habit  of  attaching 
words  more  or  less  appropriate  to  all  the  calls  in  common  use, 
soon  began  to  sing  the  following  words  to  this  call: 

"'Go  to  sleep,  go  to  sleep,   go  to  sleep,  go  to  sleep; 
You  may  all  go  to  sleep,   go  to  sleep ! ' 

"At  the  soldiers'  homes,  where  the  veteran  privates  of 
the  Civil  War  are  laid  to  rest,  at  burials  of  privates  and 
officers  of  the  army  on  frontier  posts,  wherever  the  last  mili- 
tary honors  are  paid,  the  sweet  notes  of  this  call  give  voice 
to  the  last  farewell." 


Sloiv. 


EDWIN  JOSEPH  DE  HAVEN. 

Lieutenant  Commander  United  States  Naiy.     Died  at  Geneva, 
Switzerland,  October,  i8jg. 


F^NTERED  the  service  as  Midshipman.  U.S.N.,  Octo- 
ber 19,  1841;  Passed  Midshipman,  August  10,  1847;- 
^*"-*   Master,  September  14,  1855;   Lieutenant,  Septem- 
ber  15,    1855;    Lieutenant  Commander,  July   16,   1862. 
Resigned  May  30,   1865. 

War  service  with  the  West  Gulf  Squadron. 


HENRY  WELD  FARRAR. 

Captain  and  Brevet  Lieutenant   Colonel,    United   States   Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  April  17,  1881. 

\  A  |HEREAS,  It  has  pleased  God,  in  the  interposition 
"H.  of  His  providence,  suddenly  to  remove,  in  the 
prime  of  life,  our  beloved  Companion,  Colonel  Henry 
Farrar,  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Illinois  Com- 
mandery,  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States,  and  a  member  of  its  first  Council;  and 

WHEREAS,  Colonel  Farrar  joined  the  Volunteer  Army 
of  the  United  States,  April  10,  1863,  participating  in 
nearly  all  the  battles,  marches  and  campaigns  of  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  during  that  time,  including  the 
campaign  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley  with  General  Sheri- 
dan, rising  in  rank  from  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 

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MEMORIALS.  9 

Seventh  Maine  Volunteers  to  that  of  Captain  and  Aide- 
de-Camp,  in  1864,  and  being  twice  brevetted  (Major  and 
Lieutenant  Colonel)  for  gallant  conduct  on  the  battle- 
field; and 

WHEREAS,  In  his  death  this  Commandery  has  lost 
one  of  its  most  honored  and  valued  members;  there- 
fore, be  it 

Resolved,  That  as  a  soldier  Colonel  Farrar  was  espe- 
cially distinguished  for  skill  and  gallantry;  as  a  citizen 
he  was  true,  faithful  and  patriotic;  as  a  friend  he  was 
warm-hearted,  sincere  and  unselfish,  ever  untiring  in  his 
efforts  to  serve  those  who  had  his  confidence  and  esteem, 
and  possessing  rare  social  qualities  which  made  him  a 
welcome  companion  to  all  with  whom  he  came  in  con- 
tact. 

Resolved,  That  as  Companions  of  this  Order  we  look 
back  with  no  little  pride  upon  his  military  career  and 
the  sacrifices  he  made  in  the  cause  of  his  country;  that 
we  greatly  deplore  his  death  and  tender  to  the  bereaved 
relatives  our  deepest  sympathy. 

Resolved,  That  copies  of  these  resolutions,  duly  at- 
tested and  properly  engrossed,  be  transmitted  by  the 
Recorder  to  the  relatives  of  the  deceased,  and  that  the 
same  be  spread  upon  the  records  of  this  Commandery. 

WM.  E.  STRONG, 
FRANCIS  MORGAN, 
ABBOTT  L.  ADAMS, 

Committee. 


HENRY  MABBETT  KNICKERBOCKER. 

Captain    Seventh  Neiv    York   Heavy  Artillery,  United  States  Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Chicago,  October  jo,  1882. 

\  i  fHEREAS,  Our  Commandery  has  heard  with  sorrow 
*•(.     of  the  removal  by  death  of  our  honored  Compan- 
ion, Captain  Henry  M.  Knickerbocker;  and 

WHEREAS,  Our  late  companion  was  one  of  the  first 
to  join  the  Volunteer  Army  of  the  United  States,  serving 
his  country  and  filling  the  positions  of  Corporal,  Ser- 
geant, Second  Lieutenant,  First  Lieutenant  and  Captain 
in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth  New  York  Infantry, 
afterward  the  Seventh  Heavy  Artillery,  taking  part  with 
his  command  at  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River,  Coal 
Harbor,  Petersburg,  and  in  the  defenses  of  Washington; 
and 


MEMORIALS.  II 

WHEREAS,  Our  Commandery  feels  that,  by  his  removal 
from  among  us  to  a  better  life,  ir  has  lost  one  of  its  de- 
voted and  esteemed  members:  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  as  a  soldier,  Captain  Knickerbocker 
was  true  and  faithful  to  his  country;  as  a  citizen,  patri- 
otic, upright  and  highly  respected;  and  as  a  friend  was 
gentle,  loving  and  generous,  with  kind  words  and  hearty 
good  wishes  for  all. 

Resolved,  That  we  shall  ever  deeply  feel  his  loss,  not 
only  as  a  sincere  Companion  of  our  Order,  but  as  a  trust- 
ed friend  and  a  valued  member  of  the  community,  and 
that  we  respectfully  extend  to  the  bereaved  family  our 
deepest  sympathy. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent 
to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

CHARLES  W.   DAVIS, 
WILLIAM  E.   STRONG, 
GORDON  G.   MOORE, 

Committee. 


LUCIUS  HOLLENBECK  DRURY. 

Major  First   Wisconsin  Heavy  Artillery,  United  States   Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  June  22,  1884. 


3INCE  the   last   meeting  of   this   Commandery   its 
members  have  been  called  upon  to  pay  the  last 
tribute  of  respect  and  affection  to  one  of  its  mem- 
bers, Major  Lucius  Hollenbeck  Drury,  late  of  the  First 
Wisconsin  Heavy  Artillery,  who  died  at  his  residence  in 
Chicago,  on  the  22d  day  of  June,   1884. 

Companion  Drury  was  born  at  Highgate,  Vermont, 
December  21,  1824.  In  early  boyhood  he  was  appren- 
ticed to  the  printer's  trade,  and  naturally  graduated  a 
journalist.  With  the  nomadic  instincts  of  the  profession 
he  pursued  his  career  in  his  native  State,  in  Ohio,  North 
Carolina,  Arkansas,  and  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion 


MEMORIALS.  13 

found  him  conducting  a  newspaper  in  Wisconsin,  with  a 
widespread  reputation  as  a  versatile  humorous  writer. 
He  was  commissioned  by  Governor  Randall  to  raise  a 
section  of  a  battery,  and  in  a  short  time  he  had  raised  a 
full  battery,  which  was  mustered  into  the  service  as  the 
Third  Wisconsin  Battery  of  Light  Artillery,  with  Drury 
as  the  Captain,  better  known  to  the  Army  of  the  Cum- 
berland as  the  Badger  Battery,  attached  to  Van  Cleve's 
Division  of  the  corps  commanded  by  General  Crittenden. 
While  Chief  of  Artillery  of  this  Division,  on  the  I3th  day 
of  September,  1863,  in  a  heavy  skirmish  on  the  bank  of 
the  Chickamauga,  Companion  Drury  was  shot  through 
the  liver  by  a  rebel  sharpshooter  and  supposed  to  be 
mortally  wounded.  He  recovered  so  as  to  be  able  to 
join  his  command  in  the  spring  of  1864,  when  he  was 
made  Chief  of  Artillery  of  the  First  Division  of  the  Four- 
teenth Corps,  and  served  in  that  capacity  in  the  cam- 
paign against  Atlanta  till  the  fall  of  1864,  when  he  was 
mustered  out  with  his  Battery,  his  term  of  service  having 
expired.  Notwithstanding  he  suffered  severe  pain  from 
the  old  wound,  from  which  he  was  never  free  till  his 
death,  he  again  entered  the  service  December  i,  1864, 
as  Major  of  the  First  Wisconsin  Heavy  Artillery,  and 
served  with  his  usual  gallantry  in  the  Twenty-second 
Corps  till  mustered  out  of  service  June  2,  1865,  when  he 
came  to  Chicago,  where,  after  honorably  rilling  various 
places  of  responsibility  and  trust,  his  mortal  career  was 
terminated  by  disease  resulting  from  his  old  wound,  on 
the  22d  day  of  June,  1884.  In  view  of  his  distinguished 
military  services,  and  his  many  endearing  personal  quali- 
ties, his  surviving  associates  have 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Lucius  Hollenbeck 
Drury,  the  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States  has  lost  one  of 


14  MEMORIALS. 

its  valued  and  honored  members.  As  a  soldier  he  was 
brave,  loyal  and  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  every  duty, 
and,  as  a  warm-hearted,  generous  companion  and  friend, 
he  had  become  endeared  to  us  by  many  ties. 

Resolved,  That  we  respectfully  tender  to  the  widow 
and  children  of  Major  Drury  our  condolence  and  sympa- 
thy in  their  great  affliction,  and  that  the  Recorder  be 
directed  to  enter  these  resolutions  on  our  minutes,  and 
to  transmit  an  engrossed  copy  to  the  family  of  our  late 
Companion. 

EDGAR  D.   SWAIN, 
E.   A.   OTIS, 
H.   H.  THOMAS, 

Committee. 


DEMING  NORRIS  WELCH. 

Captain  and  Brevet  Colonel,   United  States  Volunteers.      Died  at 
Dresden,  Saxony,  February  1 1,  1885. 

I  HE  members  of  this  Commandery  have  heard  with 
V      deep  regret  of  the  death  of    Companion  Colonel 
Deming  Norris  Welch,  February  11,   1885,  in  Dresden, 
Saxony. 

Companion  Welch  was  among  the  first  to  volunteer 
in  the  service  of  our  country,  and  served  faithfully  and 
efficiently  until  the  close  of  the  war  in  the  Sixteenth 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Tenrfessee,  and  Ninth  Corps,  Army 
of  the  Gulf,  and  was  brevetted  Major,  Lieutenant  Colonel 
and  Colonel,  U.  S.  V.,  March  13.  1865. 

Our  Commandery  has,  by  his  removal   from   among 

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1 6  MEMORIALS. 

us  to  a  better  life,  lost  a  beloved  and  esteemed   com- 
panion; therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  as  an  officer,  Colonel  Welch  was  true 
and  faithful  to  his  country;  as  a  citizen,  upright  and 
highly  respected;  and  as  a  friend,  generous  and  con- 
genial, with  kind  words  and  good  wishes  for  all. 

Resolved,  That  we  deeply  feel  his  loss,  not  only  as  a 
Companion  of  our  Order,  but  as  a  valued  friend  and 
esteemed  member  of  this  community,  and  that  we  re- 
spectfully extend  to  the  bereaved  family  our  heartfelt 
sympathy. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to 
the  family  of  our  late  Companion. 

CHARLES  D.   RHODES, 
FRANCIS  MORGAN, 
HUNTINGTON  W.  JACKSON, 

Committee. 


THEOPHILUS  LYLE  DICKEY. 

Colonel  Fourth  Illinois  Cavalry,   United  States  Volunteers.       Died  at 
Atlantic  City,  Neiv  Jersey,  July  22,  1885. 

I  HE  death  of  Theophilus  Lyle  Dickey,  of  this  Com- 
^     mandery,   formerly  Colonel  of  the  Fourth  Illinois 
Cavalry,  having  been  made  known  to  us,  his  companions, 
we  meet  to-day  to  honor  his  memory  as  soldier  and  citi- 
zen, and  to  express  our  sorrow  for  his  loss. 

Past  his  fiftieth  year  at  the  time  he  encountered  the 
toil  and  danger  of  active  service  in  the  war  for  the  Union, 
it  can  justly  be  said  of  Colonel  Dickey  that  he  rendered 
faithful  and  efficient  aid  to  his  country  and  to  the  great 
Captain  by  whom  from  time  to  time  he  was  assigned  to 
positions  implying  trust  in  his  enterprise,  courage  and 
judgment.  Such  a  place  was  filled  by  Colonel  Dickey, 

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1 8  MEMORIALS. 

when,  at  the  head  of  a  cavalry  force,  he  bravely  led  the 
way  across  the  strip  of  forest  that  lay  between  Fort  Henry 
and  the  rifle-pits  of  Donelson.  This  rapid  and  successful 
reconnoissance  to  the  Cumberland  river  afforded  General 
Grant  accurate  and  early  information  of  the  enemy's  lines 
and  enabled  him  to  take  measures  for  an  immediate  dis- 
position of  the  investing  army. 

Colonel  Dickey  was  present  at  the  siege  and  surrender 
of  Fort  Donelson;  he  accompanied  General  Grant  in  sub- 
sequent campaigns,  including  the  movement  to  Pittsburg 
Landing,  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  and  the  operations  in  Mis- 
sissippi resulting  in  the  seizure  and  occupation  of  Corinth. 
He  had  the  honor  of  appointment  by  General  Grant  as 
Chief  of  Cavalry,  and  served  in  that  and  other  capacities 
until  February  16.  1863,  when  he  resigned  and  resumed 
the  duties  of  civil  life.  The  register  shows  that  he  joined 
this  Cornmandery,  upon  election,  March  3,  1880.  Since 
that  date  our  Order  has  known  him  as  a  true  friend  and 
agreeable  companion;  one  ever  ready  to  do  his  part  toward 
the  entertainment  and  instruction  of  its  members.  His 
voice  and  pen  have  alike  testified  before  us  to  his  interest 
in  the  higher  objects  of  the  Cornmandery;  to  his  loyal 
devotion  to  the  name  and  fame  of  the  Army  of  the  Ten- 
nessee, and  all  Union  armies  and  generals. 

The  eminent  civic  station  attained  by  Colonel  Dickey 
is,  of  course,  known  to  all.  At  the  time  of  his  de- 
cease he  was  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois. 
Elected  December  21,  1875,  he  was  re-elected  by  the 
people  June  6,  1879,  for  the  term  of  nine  years.  He 
became  Chief  Justice  in  1880.  It  is  believed  that  the 
records  and  reports  of  the  Supreme  Court  will  furnish 
the  fullest  evidence  of  his  great  natural  and  acquired 
powers  as  a  lawyer  and  a  judge.  Whether  agreeing 
with  his  brethren  on  the  bench  or  not,  his  recorded 


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opinions  have  always  indicated  clear  convictions  of  duty 
fearlessly  uttered. 

As  with  loving  hands  we  bring  a  chaplet  to  the  grave 
of  Colonel  Dickey,  we  recall  the  sad  fact  that  once  again 
he  has  gone  on  before  his  great  ideal  soldier  and  com- 
mander— before  him  who  expires  as  if  in  the  arms  of  the 
American  nation — him  whose  death  after  long  and  most 
pitiful  suffering  has  hung  our  country's  heaven  in  black 
from  ocean  to  ocean,  from  Alaska  to  the  Gulf. 

Let  it  not  be  forgotten  as  we  endeavor  to  appreciate 
his  varied  and  useful  services  in  our  last  war,  that  he  was. 
also  an  Illinois  volunteer  in  1846,  with  the  gallant  Hardin, 
and  other  noble  and  patriotic  sons  of  our  State.  Thus 
the  far  off  remembrances  of  Mexico  gather  about  his 
name  as  we  speak  of  fields  less  foreign  and  more  recent. 
In  mourning  the  loss  of  Colonel  Dickey  the  Cornmand- 
ery  desires  also  to  convey  to  his  family  the  assurance  of 
its  earnest  sympathy  in  their  affliction. 

GEORGE  L.   PADDOCK, 
JOHN  E.   SMITH, 
JOHN  L.   BEVERIDGE, 
JOSEPH  STOCKTON, 
EDWARD  A.   BLODGETT, 

Committee. 


MICHAEL  LEWIS  COURTNEY. 

Captain  Twenty-fifth  Infantry  and  Brevet  Major,  United  States 
Army.     Died  at  San  Antonio,   Texas,  July  16,  1886. 

ekIPANION  Captain  and  Brevet  Major  Michael  L. 
Courtney  died  at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  on  the  i6th 
day  of  July,  1886,  of  heart  disease,  while  on  leave  of 
absence  from  his  regiment;  and  it  becomes  us  now  to 
state  simply  his  record. 

Major  Courtney  entered  the  service  in  July,  1862,  and 
was  mustered  as  Sergeant  One  Hundred  and  Second 
Illinois  Infantry.  He  received  his  promotion  as  Second 
Lieutenant  in  April,  1863,  to  rank  from  January  27th, 
and  was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant  and  Quarter 
Master  to  date  from  August  9,  1863. 

In  December,   1868,  having  passed  a  very  creditable 


MEMORIALS.  21 

examination,  he  was  mustered  out  of  the  Volunteer  service 
and  appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Sixteenth  Infan- 
try U.  S.  C.  T. ,  in  which  regiment  he  served  with  great 
credit,  ability,  and  gallantry,  until  April  30,  1866,  when 
his  command  was  mustered  out.  Shortly  afterward  he 
was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant  Thirty-ninth  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.,  and  passed  through  the  grades  of  First  Lieu- 
tenant and  Captain. 

He  served  with  the  One  Hundred  and  Second  Illinois 
Infantry  in  the  action  at  Woodburn,  Tennessee,  and  with 
the  Sixteenth  U.  S.  C.  T.  was  engaged  in  the  operation 
against  the  rebel  General  Forrest,  in  the  battle  of  Chat- 
tanooga, and  in  the  battles  of  Pulaski  and  Nashville;  and 
for  gallant  and  meritorious  services  in  the  two  last  named 
engagements,  he  was  brevetted  Captain  and  Major  U.S.A. 

Major  Courtney  joined  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  of  the  United  States  June  3,  1885,  through  this 
Commandery. 

Of  a  quiet  and  retiring  disposition,  he  was  an  officer 
of  strong  character,  great  efficiency,  and  sterling  worth; 
one  who  could  always  be  counted  on  in  emergencies.  As 
a  brother  officer  he  was  companionable,  affable,  and  a 
true  friend;  as  a  man,  honorable,  upright  and  just;  in 
every  sense,  a  true  companion  of  the  Order.  As  an 
illustration  of  his  specially  studious  nature  it  may  be 
mentioned  that,  on  leave  of  absence,  he  tested  the  suc- 
cess of  his  studies  in  one  direction  by  taking  his  gradu- 
ating degree  in  law. 

There  is  a  measure  of  our  work  in  such  a  companion- 
ship which  both  pride  and  modesty  compel  us  to  recall, 
while  sympathy  unites  us  with  his  family  and  all  his 
friends  in  the  great  loss  we  have  sustained. 

We  should  gather  from  his  life  of  sterling  worth 
the  lessons  of  true  manhood  which  made  him  the 


22  MEMORIALS. 

irreproachable  officer,  gentleman,  and  true  companion, 
that  they  may  be  our  guide  in  life  and  be  held  by  us  as 
the  whole  essentials  for  companionship  in  this  Order. 

He  has  laid  away  the  honored  sword  he  wore,  "  with 
charity  for  all  and  malice  toward  none,"  and  has  entered 
into  that  peace  the  world  cannot  give.  Without  desiring 
to  intrude  on  any  greater  grief,  we  recommend  that  copies 
of  this  brief  expression  be  sent  to  his  family,  his  regiment, 
and  the  Army  and  Navy  Journal. 

J.   C.   BRECKINRIDGE, 
N.   H.  WALWORTH, 
RICHARD  ROBINS, 

Committee. 


DAVID  CLELAND  BRADLEY. 

First  Lieutenant  Sixty-fifth  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  October  25,  1886. 

Y  OUR  committee  appointed  to  take  action  upon  the 
i.      death  of  our  late  Companion  David  Cleland  Brad- 
ley do  report  and  move  that  the  following  memorial  be 
inscribed  upon  the  records  of  the  Commandery  and  that 
a  copy  thereof  be  sent  to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

On  the  25th  day  of  October,  1886,  David  Cleland 
Bradley,  a  companion  of  this  Commandery,  died  at  his 
home  on  Ashland  avenue  in  this  city. 

Companion  Bradley  entered  the  United  States  Vol- 
unteer Service  March  2d,  1862,  as  adjutant  of  the  Sixty- 
fifth  Illinois  Infantry.  Reserved  faithfully  and  gallantly 
until  his  regiment  was  mustered  out,  March  ist,  1865. 

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24  MEMORIALS. 

During  the  last  year  of  the  war  he  acted  as  Aide-de-Camp 
on  the  staff  of  Major  General  Jacob  D.  Cox,  and  with  his 
chief  rendered  conspicuous  and  meritorious  services  dur- 
ing the  Atlanta  campaign  and  at  the  battles  of  Franklin 
and  Nashville. 

Lieutenant  Bradley  was  a  man  of  irreproachable 
character,  lovable  in  disposition,  brave  and  affectionate. 
He  was  devoted  to  his  friends,  kind  and  considerate  in 
his  treatment  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  The 
memory  of  his  military  service  and  companionship  was 
proudly  and  warmly  cherished  in  his  bosom,  and  an  old 
soldier  when  destitute  applied  not  in  vain  to  him  for  aid. 
We,  his  surviving  comrades,  will  affectionately  cherish 
the  memory  of  his  virtues  and  his  winsome  presence  until 
one  by  one  we  join  him  in  the  silent  "muster  out." 

AREA  N.  WATERMAN, 
CHARLES  D.  RHODES, 
HENRY  S.  PICKANDS, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  CHANDLER. 

First  Lieutenant  Eighty-eighth  Illinois  Infantry,   United  States 
I'olunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  November  2,  1886. 

\  if  HEN  a  soldier  died  upon  the  field,   "few  and  short 

•H.    were  the  prayers  we  said."     The  stern  realities  of 

war  forbade  expressions  of  sorrow  or  signs  of  mourning. 

Nevertheless,  death  was  not  lost  to  us,  and  in  the 
sacrifice  we  saw  the  links  which  bound  him  who  died  in 
kinship  with  humanity. 

When  now  a  soldier  dies,  while  we  gather  about  his 
bier,  and  place  upon  it  tokens  of  our  remembrance,  for- 
getting perhaps  that  the  seeds  of  disease  which  have  car- 
ried him  to  a  premature  grave  were  sown  in  the  privations 
and  hardships  of  camp  and  march,  notwithstanding  honor 
and  renown  may  be  his  due  for  his  achievements  in  civil 

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26  MEMORIALS. 

life,  we  instinctively  turn  to  the  period  when  he  volun- 
teered to  serve  his  country,  and  for  its  cause  offered  his 
life  in  the  balance.  That  period  marks  his  manhood  — 
and  remembered  shall  he  be  who  so  manifested  it. 

George  Chandler  was  born  in  Vermont  in  December, 
1834.  Having  received  a  university  training  at  Dart- 
mouth College  and  the  University  of  Vermont,  and  after- 
wards studying  law,  he  at  first,  in  1857,  went  to  St. 
Louis.  Afterwards,  in  1859,  he  came  to  Chicago,  to 
engage  in  its  practice. 

There  the  outbreak  of  the  war  found  him.  He  enlisted 
in  Company  A  of  the  Eighty-eighth  Illinois  Infantry 
Volunteers,  and  in  pursuance  of  the  choice  of  the  other 
enlisted  men  of  that  company  was  commissioned  First 
Lieutenant.  He  was  a  faithful  officer,  always  ready  for 
duty,  never  complaining,  vigilant  to  care  for  his  men, 
quick  to  learn  and  instruct,  and  in  battle  cool  and  firm. 
He  was  one  who  stayed  in  the  fight. 

Called  home  by  what  he  considered  imperative  de- 
mands, he  resigned,  and  thereby  lost  promotion  which 
would  surely  soon  have  followed.  From  that  time  he 
was  an  active  lawyer  at  Chicago,  and  in  his  profession 
displayed  learning  and  marked  ability. 

It  may,  without  regard  to  the  length  of  his  term  of 
service,  be  truly  said  that  he  was  one  of  those  who  helped 
to  put  down  the  rebellion.  We  may  also  justly  say  of 
him  that  he  was  earnest,  intelligent,  and  brave;  and  for 
him,  as  for  others  gone  before,  we  may  recite  the  requiem 
written  by  Sir  Walter  Scott: 

"Soldier,  rest!  thy  warfare  o'er, 

Sleep  the  sleep  that  knows  not  breaking; 
Dream  of  battlefields  no  more, 
Days  of  danger,  nights  of  waking. 

"In  our  isle's  enchanted  hall, 

Hands  unseen  thy  couch  are  strewing; 


MEMORIALS.  2  7 

Fairy  strains  of  music  fall, 

Every  sense  in  slumber  dewing. 

"Soldier,  rest!  thy  warfare  o'er; 
Dream  of  fighting  fields  no  more; 
Sleep  the  sleep  that  knows  not  breaking, 
Morn  of  toil,  nor  night  of  waking." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

GEO.   W.   SMITH, 
JNO.   L.  THOMPSON, 
CHARLES  T.   BOAL, 

Committee. 


JOHN   ALEXANDER   LOGAN. 

Major  General  United  Stales  Volunteers.     Died  at  Washington, 
District  of  Columbia,  December  26,  1886. 

I  HE  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of 
V  the  Loyal  Legion,  is  again  called  upon  to  mourn 
the  loss  of  one  of  its  most  distinguished  members.  One 
by  one  the  great  leaders  of  the  war  have  been  taken 
from  our  ranks.  Grant,  Thomas,  Meade,  Hancock  and 
McClellan  have  each  been  summoned  to  join  that  greater 
army  on  the  other  shore.  To  the  long  list  of  the  illustrious 
dead  must  now  be  added  the  name  of  Major  General 
John  Alexander  Logan;  and  we  meet  to-day,  at  the  call 
of  our  Commander,  to  give  expression  to  our  sorrow,  and 
the  deep  sense  of  the  great  loss  which  we  and  the  Nation 
have  sustained. 

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MEMORIALS.  29 

As  a  soldier,  General  Logan,  at  the  first  outbreak  of 
the  Rebellion,  resigned  his  seat  in  the  National  Congress, 
and  raised  a  regiment  which  he  afterwards  gallantly  led 
in  battle.  He  became  identified  with  the  splendid  "Army 
of  the  Tennessee"  from  its  first  organization,  and  took  a 
prominent  part  in  every  battle  and  campaign  in  which 
that  Army  was  engaged;  and  having  successively  com- 
manded a  regiment,  brigade,  division,  and  corps,  when 
the  war  ended  he  was  that  Army's  trusted  and  honored 
commander. 

In  civil  life,  General  Logan  was  a  brave  and  fearless 
advocate  of  what  he  believed  to  be  right;  in  political 
affairs,  frank,  manly  and  outspoken. 

Few  indeed  there  are  who  like  him  united  the  quali- 
ties of  the  soldier  and  the  statesman,  and  won  the  double 
honor  of  military  and  civil  renown.  No  man,  living  or 
dead,  stood  nearer  the  hearts  of  the  soldiers  of  the  great 
war,  and  by  no  man  were  their  rights  more  loyally  and 
sacredly  defended.  His  fame  is  secure,  and  his  memory 
will  be  cherished  forever  by  the  Nation  he  served  so 
loyally  and  well,  both  in  peace  and  war. 

"  After  life's  fitful  fever,  he  sleeps  well." 

Bearing  in  mind  his  manly  virtues,  and  the  ties  of 
warm  personal  friendship  which  bound  him  to  our  hearts, 
the  members  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  have  directed  that  this  tribute 
of  respect  to  his  memory  be  entered  upon  our  records, 
and  that  a  copy  be  furnished  to  his  afflicted  family,  with 
our  profound  assurances  of  sincere  and  heartfelt  sympa- 
thy in  their  great  bereavement. 

WILLIAM  E.   STRONG, 
EPHRAIM  A.   OTIS, 
HORACE  H.  THOMAS, 
LEWIS  B.    MITCHELL, 
DAVID  H.   GILE, 
JAMES  A.   SEXTON, 
JOHN  T.    McAuLEY, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  WHITFIELD  LAWTON. 

Captain  Fourth  Michigan  Cavalry,  Brevet  Major,  United  States 
Vohinteers.     Died  at  Lazvton,  Michigan,  February  7,  1887. 

OF  THE  companions  of  the  Commandery  of  the  State 
of  Illinois  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion 
of  the  United  States,    George  Whitfield  Lawton, 
late  Captain  of  the  Fourth  Regiment  of  Michigan  Cavalry 
and  Brevet  Major,  U.  S.  V.,  leads  the  van  of  those  who 
cross  the  dark  river  in  1887,  and  is  the  first  one  to  re- 
port to  the  Great  Commander. 

His  comrades  could  ask  for  no  better  representative 

than    this    gallant    soldier,    excellent    citizen,    profound 

scholar,  devoted  husband,  loving  father  and  true  friend. 

Major  Lawton  was  born  in  Oneida  county,  New  York, 

October  20,   1833.      Back  of  him  were  soldier  ancestors, 

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MEMORIALS.  31 

for  his  grandfathers  were  patriots  in  our  war  with  Eng- 
land for  independence.  Early  in  life  he  developed  that 
love  for  study  which,  enlarging  itself,  gave  him  a  wide 
and  well  deserved  literary  reputation. 

In  August,  1862,  he  was  commissioned  Second  Lieu- 
tenant of  C  Company,  Fourth  Regiment  Michigan  Cav- 
alry, the  captor  of  Jeff  Davis,  although,  on  account  of  a 
rebel  bullet,  Major  Lawton  was  not  with  the  command 
at  the  time  the  capture  was  made.  In  addition  to  this 
world-renowned  service  rendered  by  his  company,  the 
Commandery  will  well  remember  the  regiment  as  the 
one  which  opened  the  battle  of  Chickamauga,  and  partici- 
pated in  all  the  hard  and  glorious  work  of  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland.  He  was  promoted  First  Lieutenant 
January  25,  1863;  Captain,  August  23d  of  the  same  year, 
and  Brevet  Major,  March  13,  1865,  "for  gallant  and 
meritorious  conduct  in  action  at  Dallas,  Georgia,"  in 
which  battle,  May  23,  1864,  he  was  shot  through  the 
right  lung.  On  July  i,  1865,  he  was  mustered  out  of 
the  United  States  service.  While  apparently  in  good 
health,  he  dropped  dead  of  heart  disease,  at  Lawton, 
Michigan,  on  Monday,  February  7,  1887. 

As  American  soldiers  the  members  of  this  Command- 
ery mourn  him — our  brave  and  faithful  comrade — and 
will  preserve  gratefully  the  memory  of  his  patriotic  serv- 
ices. His  public  and  private  character  commanded  our 
respect  and  admiration,  while  his  kindly  feelings  and 
lovable  traits  as  a  warm  friend  and  fond  husband  and 
father  endeared  him  to  all  who  knew  him.  He  was  truly 
a  noble  example  of  the  best  quality  of  the  citizen  soldier. 
We  tender  to  his  family  our  heartfelt  sympathy  in  their 
sudden  bereavement. 

TAYLOR  P.   RUNDLET, 
EPHRAIM  A.   OTIS, 
ARTHUR  EDWARDS, 

Committee. 


FRANCIS    MORGAN. 

Captain  First  Illinois  Light  Artillery,  United  States  Volunteers, 
Died  at  Chicago,  August  j,  1887. 

ji/HEREAS,   Our  Companion   Francis    Morgan,    late 
*  "i      Captain  of  Battery  A,  First  Illinois  Light  Artillery, 
U.  S.V.,  on  the  fifth  day  of  August,  1887,  left  our  mem- 
bership at  the  call  of  the  Great  Commander;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  this  Commandery  testifies  to  the 
soldierly  and  many  other  sterling  qualities  of  our  late 
companion,  and  holding  him  in  kindly  memory,  tenders 
to  his  family  its  sincere  sympathy  in  their  sorrow. 

CLARENCE  H.   DYER, 
ISRAEL  P.   RUMSEY, 
ALBERT  L.   COE, 

Committee. 
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HON.    MARK    SKINNER. 

Companion  of  the  Third  Class.     Died  at  Manchester,   Vermont, 
September  16,  1887. 

I  HE  "time-beats"  that  are  counting  out  our  genera- 
V  tions,  are  sounding  at  shortened  intervals;  and  one 
by  one  those  who  bore  the  brunt  and  burden  of  the  day, 
in  the  time  of  our  country's  peril,  are  passing  away. 
Eight  times  within  the  past  few  months,  and  three  times 
since  last  we  met  together,  has  the  "  summons "  come 
into  our  little  Commandery,  and  we  miss  and  mourn  the 
companions  we  may  no  more  greet. 

The  ties  that  are  forged  in  great  emergencies — the 
honor  accorded  to  strength  that  has  been  tested  amid 
great  perils — the  gratitude  felt  for  services  rendered  in 
great  need,  are  not  as  the  ties — or  the  honor — or  the 

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34  MEMORIALS. 

gratitude  of  common  days.  They  are  measured  rather 
by  the  intense  emotions  of  the  days  that  gave  them  birth, 
and  partake  of  the  loyalty  of  those  hours. 

We  miss  and  mourn  our  companions,  who  were  test- 
ed in  emergencies — who  were  proven  strong  amid  perils 
— and  who  bore  help  in  need  to  the  very  uttermost  of 
heroic  possibility. 

Ours  is  primarily  a  military  association  of  those  who 
bore  well  their  part  as  soldiers  during  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion;  but  the  underlying  principle  which  gives  it 
standing,  is  loyalty  to,  and  service  for  our  country;  and 
by  our  charter  rights  we  honor  ourselves  in  honoring 
with  a  "special  membership,"  those  in  civil  life,  who 
during  the  Rebellion  were  specially  distinguished  for 
loyal  and  eminent  service  for  our  country  and  our  coun- 
try's cause. 

For  the  first  time  since  our  Commandery  had  its  birth 
we  are  called  to  mourn  the  death  of  a  companion  of  the 
Third  Class — of  an  honorary  member — whose  conspicu- 
ous loyalty  and  distinguished  services  in  civil  life,  in  the 
dark  days  of  the  Rebellion,  made  him  eminent  among 
the  supporters  of  our  government,  and  honored  and  re- 
vered in  our  Commandery.  On  Friday  evening,  Sep- 
tember 1 6th,  in  the  home  of  his  childhood,  and  amid  the 
autumn  glories  of  his  loved  Green  Mountains,  the  Hon. 
Mark  Skinner  heard  and  answered  the  call  of  his  Great 
Commander,  and  passed  away  from  among  men. 

Born  in  1813,  the  son  and  grandson  of  distinguished 
parents,  Judge  Skinner  became  a  citizen  of  Chicago 
shortly  after  graduating  from  Middlebury  College,  and 
in  our  then  infant  city,  took  almost  at  once  an  active 
place  among  its  trusted  and  influential  citizens. 

Clear  and  broad  of  intellect;  scholarly  by  nature  and 
by  habit;  a  tireless  but  discriminating  reader;  a  thought- 


MEMORIALS.  35 

ful  observer;  a  lover  of  right,  and  gifted  with  singularly 
clear  perceptions;  a  just  man,  whose  integrity  knew  no 
shading;  warm  of  heart,  and  quick  of  hand;  a  strong 
friend,  and  an  enemy  without  malice;  unselfish,  and 
strangely  modest,  Judge  Skinner  grew  in  maturity  and 
in  influence,  as  our  city  grew  in  years  and  in  outreach. 

From  the  year  1836,  until  he  had  long  passed  the 
allotted  three  score  years  and  ten,  there  were  few  objects 
of  local  interest  or  importance  undertaken  in  our  city, 
in  which  the  scholarly  research,  the  cultured  thought  and 
clear  mind  of  Judge  Skinner  were  not  trusted  factors  in 
winning  support  and  in  assuring  the  best  results.  The 
whirl  and  rapid  growth  of  our  great  city  have  of  late 
years  largely  buried  out  of  sight  the  debt  we  owe  to 
those  who,  in  its  earlier  years,  builded  even  better  than 
they  knew;  but  in  the  records  of  our  city  the  student  of 
its  history  will  find  the  name  and  influence  of  Judge 
Skinner  to  have  been  an  active  power  in  every  good 
word  and  work,  and  largely  potent  in  making  possible 
its  later  position  among  the  great  centers  of  our  land. 

We  honor  Judge  Skinner  for  his  services  and  exam- 
ple as  a  "citizen  of  no  mean  city;  "  but  far  more  do  we 
cherish  his  memory  and  honor  his  high  name  as  patriot, 
and  as  eminent  in  service  for  his  country. 

A  father,  he  held  not  back  his  only  son,  just  fresh 
from  the  honors  of  Yale,  when  the  movings  of  an  inher- 
ited loyalty  impelled  that  son  to  offer  his  life  to  his 
country  in  her  peril;  and  later,  when  the  son  had  died 
in  battle,  and  the  light  of  his  life  that  was  the  promise 
of  his  old  age,  was  put  out,  his  prayer  was  the  patriot's 
prayer,  that  the  service  given  at  so  great  cost  might  have 
been  to  his  country's  gain.  As  citizen,  Judge  Skinner 
responded  loyally  to  the  call  of  duty,  and  gave  with 
whole  heart  his  time  and  strength,  his  health,  and  almost 


36  MEMORIALS. 

his  life,  in  an   untiring   effort   to   meet   recognized    and 
pressing  emergencies. 

Early  in  June,  1861,  at  the  request  of  the  Govern- 
ment, an  effort  had  been  made  to  establish  here  in  Chi- 
cago the  centre  of  a  Northwestern  Sanitary  Commission, 
but  the  effort  failed  to  secure  the  public  confidence  or 
support,  and  died.  In  October  of  the  same  year,  our 
Government  urged  again  the  importance  of  organized 
help  from  the  Northwest;  and  in  response  the  "North- 
western Branch  of  the  Sanitary  Commission"  was 
formed,  with  Judge  Skinner  as  its  President.  Peculiarly 
fitted,  by  intense  loyalty  and  high  ability,  to  the  special 
duties  of  the  position,  Judge  Skinner  was  even  better 
fitted  to  be  the  founder  of  the  "Sanitary  Commission" 
by  reason  of  the  high  position  in  the  public  esteem  held 
by  him  at  that  day,  and  the  universal  respect  and  per- 
fect confidence  reposed  in  him  by  all  our  people.  Modest, 
retiring,  and  quiet  in  manner  and  in  speech,  he  little 
knew  how  universally  he  was  trusted  and  esteemed.  The 
people  responded  at  once  to  the  calls  of  the  "  Sanitary 
Commission."  Branches  were  established  throughout 
the  Northwest;  depots  established  for  ready  reach  of  the 
armies  in  the  field;  supply  and  hospital  boats  were 
"  quick"  and  ready  after  every  battle;  nurses  and  doctors 
were  on  hand  to  meet  the  needs  of  great  emergencies; 
agents  were  everywhere,  meeting  needs,  giving  informa- 
tion, and  preparing  for  future  emergencies;  the  railroad 
companies  gave  preference  and  special  place  to  Sanitary 
requests  and  Sanitary  cars;  Sanitary  freight  had  prefer- 
ence to  all  other,  unless  perhaps  the  mail;  and  more  than 
once  passenger  and  express  trains  were  switched  one  side 
in  order  that  special  trains  of  Sanitary  freight,  and  the 
Sanitary  messengers  of  "good  will  to  men"  might  hasten 
past  on  their  errands  of  loyalty  and  mercy.  The 


MEMORIALS.  37 

telegraph  companies  gave  place  and  special  wires  to  the 
merciful  needs  and  calls  of  our  Sanitary  Commission, 
and  the  Northwest,  throughout  its  length  and  breadth, 
was  ablaze  with  proven  loyalty. 

Judge  Skinner  had  won  for  the  "Northwestern  Sani- 
tary Commission"  the  confidence,  the  sympathy  and 
active  support  of  those  whose  hearts  were  with  their 
fathers  and  husbands,  their  sons  and  brothers  in  the 
field;  and  all  that  organized  energy,  wise  forethought 
and  self-sacrificing  efforts  could  do,  was  being  done. 
Our  Government  was  lightened  of  heavy  burdens  and 
anxieties;  our  armies  were  strengthened  of  heart  and 
hand;  and  our  sick  and  wounded  tenderly  cared  for. 

To  the  loyal  organizer  and  indefatigable  President  of 
our  "Northwestern  Sanitary  Commission,"  who  made  it 
strong  to  give  help  to  a  nation  in  urgent  need,  and  to 
accomplish  a  work  of  mercy  unprecedented  in  history; 
to  our  late  distinguished  companion  the  Hon.  Mark 
Skinner,  we  owe  honor  and  warm  gratitude.  We  miss 
and  mourn  our  companion,  but  shall  cherish  and  honor 
his  memory. 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  to  the  family  of  the  de- 
ceased the  expression  of  our  sincerest  sympathy. 

Resolved,  That  this  "minute"  be  entered  upon  our 
records,  and  that  a  copy  of  the  same,  signed  by  the 
Commander  and  Recorder,  be  forwarded  to  the  family 
of  our  late  companion. 

SARTELL  PRENTICE, 
WM.   E.   STRONG, 
JNO.    L.   THOMPSON, 

Committee. 


EDWARD  DOMINICUS  KITTOE. 

Lieutenant    Colonel  and  Brevet    Colonel,    United  States   Volunteers. 
Died  at  Galena,   Illinois,   September  zg,   1887. 

I  HE  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the 
i.     Loyal  Legion  is  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of 
one  of  its  members. 

Your  Committee,  appointed  to  take  action  upon  the 
death  of  our  late  companion,  Dr.  Edward  D.  Kittoe, 
submit  the  following  report  and  move  that  it  be  inscribed 
upon  the  records  of  the  Commandery  and  that  a  copy 
thereof  be  sent  to  his  afflicted  family,  with  the  profound 
assurances  of  our  sincere  and  heartfelt  sympathy  in  their 
bereavement. 

On  the  29th  day  of  September,  1887,  Dr.  Edward 
Dominicus  Kittoe  died  after  a  long  and  painful  illness, 

38 


MEMORIALS.  39 

at  his  residence  in  Galena,  Illinois,  aged  73  years.  He 
was  the  son  of  Robinson  Kittoe  of  the  Royal  Navy,  Eng- 
land, and  was  born  at  Woolwich,  Kent,  England,  June 
20,  1814.  Having  received  his  primary  education  at  the 
grammar  school  at  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  Suffolk,  he  served 
an  apprenticeship  to  a  surgeon  and  apothecary,  and  then 
coming  to  America  in  his  eighteenth  year,  began  the 
study  of  medicine  under  the  late  Dr.  Samuel  Jackson,  of 
Northumberland,  Pennsylvania.  His  professional  train- 
ing was  completed  at  the  Pennsylvania  Medical  College, 
whence  he  graduated  M.  D.  in  1841. 

He  established  himself  at  Muncy,  Lycoming  county, 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  remained  in  successful  practice 
until  1851,  when  he  removed  to  Galena,  Illinois.  Dur- 
ing his  residence  in  Pennsylvania  he  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Medical  Society  and  served  in  1850-51  as  one 
of  its  Vice-Presidents.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  in  August,  1862. 

Our  late  companion  was  intensely  loyal  to  his  adopt- 
ed country  and  when  the  strife  culminated  in  open  hos- 
tility to  the  flag  of  the  Union  he  did  not  hesitate,  but 
left  family,  friends  and  a  lucrative  practice  to  give  his 
professional  services  to  those  who  went  to  the  front  in 
defense  of  the  Union. 

Dr.  Kittoe  went  out  as  Surgeon  in  the  Forty-fifth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  His  skill  and  efficiency  were 
fully  recognized  and  he  was  not  permitted  to  remain  with 
his  regiment,  but  was  detailed  upon  the  Staff  of  General 
W.  T.  Sherman,  where  he  served  until  the  spring  of 
1864,  when  he  was  promoted  Medical  Inspector  with 
rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  assigned  to  duty  upon 
the  Staff  of  General  Grant  and  later  assigned  to  duty  as 
Medical  Inspector  of  the  Northwest,  with  headquarters 
at  Dubuque,  Iowa.  He  was  brevetted  Colonel  of  Volun- 


4O  MEMORIALS. 

teers,  September  3Oth,  and  mustered  out  of  service  Octo- 
ber 31,  1865.  He  was  elected  a  companion  of  this  Com- 
mandery  April  7,  1887  (Insignia  No.  4636). 

Dr.  Kittoe  was  positive  in  his  convictions;  while  he 
shunned  notoriety  he  was  outspoken  in  his  denunciation 
of  hypocrisy,  falsehood  and  sham,  regardless  of  conse- 
quence to  himself.  He  was  an  honest,  brave,  true  man, 
an  affectionate  husband  and  kind  and  indulgent  father. 
To  the  afflicted  his  services  were  freely  given;  the 
unfortunate  never  appealed  to  him  in  vain,  and  his  death 
is  sincerely  mourned  by  the  community  in  which  he  lived. 

JNO.   E.   SMITH, 
A.   L.   CHETLAIN, 
E.   R.   P.   SHURLY, 

Committee. 


HON.   ELIHU  B.   WASHBURNE. 

Companion  of  the  Third  Class.     Died  at  Chicago,  October  22,  iSS'j . 

I  HE  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
V  United  States,  at  its  first  regular  meeting  since  the 
death  of  Companion  Elihu  B.  Washburne,  desiring  to 
express  in  such  enduring  form  as  it  may,  the  deep  feeling 
of  sorrow  thus  caused,  as  well  as  its  sense  of  the  loss  to 
the  public,  to  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  to  this  Command- 
ery, which  his  death  brings  with  it,  places  this  minute 
on  its  record. 

Elihu  Benjamin  Washburne,  member  of  the  Third 
Class  of  this  Commandery,  died  in  this  city  at  about  four 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  Saturday  the  22d  day  of 
October  last. 

41 


42  MEMORIALS. 

Born  at  Livermore  in  the  State  of  Maine,  the  son  of 
a  country  merchant  of  limited  means,  and  the  third  of 
seven  brothers,  his  early  opportunities  for  education 
were  not  liberal,  but  he  succeeded  with  the  help  of  a 
friend,  after  some  preliminary  study,  in  graduating  from 
the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  only  thus  equipped,  he 
turned  his  face  westward  and  in  1849  settled  at  Galena 
in  this  State. 

From  this  beginning,  after  successfully  practicing  his 
profession  for  a  few  years,  he  was  in  1852  elected  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  National 
Congress,  taking  his  seat  the  same  day  that  Franklin 
Pierce  was  inaugurated  President.  For  sixteen  consecu- 
tive years,  he  was  each  two  years  re-elected  by  the  same 
constituency,  and  during  his  period  of  service  in  Con- 
gress, thus  prolonged,  commencing  with  the  repeal  of 
the  Missouri  Compromise  Act,  and  ending  with  the  elec- 
tion of  General  Grant  to  the  Presidency,  he  served  as 
chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Commerce  (holding  this 
position  from  1857  to  1865) — Chairman  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  Appropriations— of  the  Committee  on  Johnson's 
Impeachment — of  the  special  Committee  on  the  death  of 
Mr.  Lincoln — and  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
Reconstruction.  At  the  time  of  his  retirement  he  had 
been  a  member  of  the  house  longer  than  any  other  man 
in  it. 

In  this  (as  in  all  other  positions  which  during  the 
course  of  his  most  eventful  life  he  held)  he  was,  if  cir- 
cumstances required,  aggressive,  and  always  courageous, 
faithful  and  intelligent.  Ever  in  favor  of  the  strictest 
economy,  he  spoke  and  voted  against  extravagant  appro- 
priations for  rivers  and  harbors,  steamship  subsidies  and 
land  grant  schemes.  He  secured  the  establishment  of 
national  cemeteries,  and  introduced  the  first  postal  tele- 


MEMORIALS.  43 

graph  bill  in  the  house.  In  promoting  the  career  of 
General  Grant  he  was  constant  and  able.  When  he  first 
took  upon  himself  the  defense  of  the  latter,  they  were 
not  personally  acquainted,  yet  rarely  has  man  ever  found 
a  friend  so  active,  zealous  and  devoted. 

Appointed  Secretary  of  State  for  the  United  States, 
after  a  few  days  service  he  resigned  and  was  at  once  sent 
as  American  Minister  to  France. 

This  office  he  held  for  nearly  nine  eventful  years,  em- 
bracing the  period  of  the  German  War — the  fall  of  the 
French  Empire — the  siege  and  bombardment  of  Paris  — 
the  Commune — and  the  bloody  battles  and  fierce  de- 
struction which  attended  the  final  success  of  the  govern- 
ment of  M.  Thiers  (the  Republic),  and  his  services  and 
action  during  these  years  gave  him,  a  reputation  wherever 
English,  French  or  German  is  spoken. 

He  was  the  personal  friend  of  Lincoln  and  Grant — 
upon  terms  of  social  intimacy  with  Thiers  and  Gambetta 
—much  esteemed  by  the  Emperor  William  and  Bis- 
marck— the  choice  of  a  very  large  number  of  his  coun- 
trymen scattered  from  Maine  to  Georgia  for  President — 
his  name  a  familiar  one  in  all  parts  of  the  civilized  world. 

He  compassed  the  whole  range  of  social  and  political 
distinction;  he  was  the  peer  of  the  best  men  of  a  gener- 
ation fruitful  in  developing  talent,  and  took  a  prominent 
part  in  social  and  political  convulsions  the  most  momen- 
tous of  modern  times,  yet  never  for  a  moment  did  he 
lose  his  simplicity  of  character  or  his  fine  feeling  of  good 
fellowship,  as  happy  to  be  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion 
and  to  be  present  at  our  simple  meetings  as  to  be  the 
guest  of  an  emperor. 

Almost  immediately  after  his  arrival  in  Paris,  war 
was  declared  by  France  against  Germany.  It  was  un- 
foreseen, unexpected,  reckless,  and  brought  untold  miser}' 


44  MEMORIALS. 

to  many  thousands  of  honest  and  unprepared  men  and 
women  and  their  children.  The  Minister  of  the  North 
German  Confederacy  withdrew,  leaving  over  thirty  thou- 
sand of  his  poor  unfortunate  countrymen  to  the  care  of 
the  American  Minister;  the  Saxon  Minister  and  the  Min- 
isters of  Hesse  and  Saxe-Coburg-Gotha  also  withdrew— 
most  of  the  resident  ministers  of  other  nations  closed 
their  embassies  and  left;  (all  representing  first-class 
powers,  except  Mr.  Washburne,  wrote  Lord  Lyons,  the 
English  Ambassador),  and  it  seemed  as  if  all  the  foreign 
population  of  Paris  looked  to  him  for  advice  and  aid, 
some  for  permission  to  leave,  others  to  remain,  all  alike 
for  protection  for  person  and  property. 

Before  the  end  came  he  was  representing,  besides  the 
North  German  Confederation,  Saxony  and  Saxe-Coburg- 
Gotha,  Hesse-Darmstadt,  Portugal,  Mexico,  Colombia, 
Uruguay,  the  Dominican  Republic,  Ecuador,  Chili,  Para- 
guay and  Venezuela.  He  was  constant  in  season  and 
out  of  season,  not  sparing  himself,  patient,  prudent, 
courageous  and  sagacious,  urging  fairness,  comity,  a 
liberal  construction  of  the  rights  of  citizens  of  a  belliger- 
ent country  in  the  territory  of  the  enemy  at  the  breaking 
out  of  war,  and  the  rights  of  neutrals.  One  week  con- 
testing with  the  Duke  of  Grammont,  the  French  Minis- 
ter of  Foreign  Affairs,  the  right  of  the  French  Govern- 
ment to  refuse  Germans,  resident  in  Paris  at  the  com- 
mencement of  hostilities,  permission  to  leave,  and  the 
next  or  shortly  after,  with  equal  decision  and  determina- 
tion opposing  with  all  his  power  of  logic,  authority  and 
will,  the  execution  of  a  decree  of  the  Government  ex- 
pelling them.  His  kindly  relation  to  the  German  Gov-. 
ernment  and  people  did  not  prevent  his  protesting  against 
a  bombardment  of  the  City  of  Paris  by  the  German  army 
without  previous  notice,  and  mindful  all  the  time  of  the 


MEMORIALS.  45 

dignity  of  his  own  position,  when  Bismarck  sought  to 
invade  his  rights  to  his  mail  he  spiritedly  refused  to  re- 
ceive it  at  all  unless  the  bag  containing  it  came  unopened 
and  undisturbed,  claiming  the  right  of  correspondence 
with  his  own  Government  as  the  representative — in  the 
Capital  of  a  belligerent — of  a  neutral  power. 

He  would,  he  said,  "reject  any  concession  of  a 
courier,  coupled  with  the  condition  that  his  dispatches 
go  unsealed.  He  would  not  write  a  dispatch  to  his  Gov- 
ernment which'  would  have  to  be  submitted  to  the  in- 
spection of  any  other  Government  on  the  face  of  the 
earth."  He  was  never  for  a  moment  off  his  guard,  and 
never  failed  to  protest  against  and  take  active  steps  to 
prevent  an  invasion  of  the  rights  of  his  own  people,  or 
those  that  belonged  to  the  citizens  of  other  nations  that 
applied  to  him,  often  exerting  himself  with  the  French 
themselves  to  save  the  life  of,  or  give  liberty  to  some  of 
their  own  countrymen.  The  extent,  responsibility,  and 
often  exasperating  nature  of  his  duties  cannot  be  over- 
stated. 

He  gave  over  thirty  thousand  safe  conducts  to  for- 
eigners desiring  to  leave  Paris  within  the  first  thirty  days, 
supplied  eight  thousand  with  railroad  tickets,  and  many 
of  them  with  money.  The  wife  of  Marshal  McMahon 
and  her  brother  applied  to  him  for  and  obtained  a  safe 
conduct  to  go  to  her  wounded  husband,  and  on  January 
1 3th,  the  war  having  begun  in  the  September  preceding, 
he  writes  that  he  was  aiding  two  thousand  two  hundred 
and  seventy-six  poverty-stricken  Germans. 

Often  made  the  means  of  communication  between 
the  German  Chancellor  and  the  French  Minister,  the 
vehicle  of  complaints  and  threats  of  retaliation  now  from 
one  and  now  from  the  other,  he  was  constant  in  his 
efforts  to  soften,  mollify  and  persua.de.  Ever  at  his  post, 


46  MEMORIALS. 

never  too  busy  to  take  on  a  new  care,  not  asking  whether 
it  was  his  duty  as  a  minister  if  he  saw  it  to  be  such  as  a 
man,  sick,  overworked,  the  end  of  the  war  was  indeed 
a  boon. 

And  yet,  as  he  wrote  to  Mr.  Labouchere  (who  as  a 
correspondent  of  a  London  paper  had  remained  in  Paris 
during  the  siege)  all  the  sights  and  scenes  they  then  wit- 
nessed, compared  with  the  events  of  the  Commune, 
"were  but  as  a  flash  in  the  pan  compared  with  a  full 
discharge  all  along  the  line  with  the  killed,  wounded  and 
missing." 

There  was  in  the  City  of  Paris,  with  its  two  millions 
of  inhabitants,  no  law,  no  protection,  no  authority  ex- 
cept that  of  an  organized  mob.  Anarchy,  robbery,  mur- 
der, assassination  reigned  supreme,  force  and  terror  in 
absolute  mastery. 

The  Tuilleries — the  Library  of  the  Louvre — the  Hotel 
de  Ville — the  palaces  of  the  Ministry  of  Finance,  of  the 
Council  of  State  and  of  the  Legion  of  Honor — the  Con- 
vent of  the  Magdalens — the  Court  of  Exchequer,  each  of 
them  of  great  size  and  dignity  and  models  of  architecture 
—and  the  Tuilleries  and  the  Hotel  de  Ville  of  great  his- 
torical interest,  the  property  of  the  men  and  women  who 
burned  them,  were  burned,  and  with  them  hundreds  of 
other  buildings. 

The  Commune  resolved  to  destroy  all  works  of  art 
glorifying  periods  which  in  its  opinion  were  disgraceful 
to  France. 

One  of  its  decrees  was  as  follows:  "  Considering  that 
the  Museum  of  the  Louvre  contains  great  numbers  of 
pictures,  statues  and  other  objects  of  art,  which  being 
externally  to  the  mind  of  the  people  the  actions  of  gods, 
kings  and  priests,  therefore,  decreed:  that  the  Museum 
of  the  Louvre  shall  be  burnt  to  the  ground. " 


MEMORIALS.  47 

And  another:  "Citizen  Milliere,  at  the  head  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  fuse-bearers,  is  to  set  fire  to  all  houses 
of  suspicious  aspect  as  well  as  to  the  public  monuments 
on  the  left  bank  of  the  Seine.  Citizen  Dereure  with  one 
hundred  and  fifty  fuse-bearers  is  charged  with  the  first 
and  second  arrondissements,  Citizen  Billoray  with  one 
hundred  men  is  charged  with  the  ninth,  tenth  and  twen- 
tieth arrondissements.  Citizen  Tesnier  with  fifty  men 
has  the  Boulevards  of  the  Madeleine  and  of  the  Bastile 
especially  entrusted  to  him. " 

Houses  were  robbed;  wherever  a  German  was  found 
he  was  seized  and  imprisoned;  churches  were  converted 
into  club  houses,  the  clergy  hunted  down  and  placarded 
as  thieves;  hostages  were  murdered,  sixty-three  at  one 
time. 

The  Invalides  was  mined  and  the  Column  of  the  Place 
Vendome  pulled  down.  The  venerable  Archbishop  of 
Paris,  whose  whole  life  had  been  spent  in  acts  of  charity, 
was  shot  by  order  of  an  official. 

Yet  Mr.  Washburne  remained  at  his  post,  fearlessly 
meeting  every  danger  till  seventy-nine  days  of  this  kind 
of  life  had  run  and  order  was  restored.  It  is  almost  im- 
possible to  realize  the  tact,  perseverance  and  judgment, 
the  coolness  and  courage  required. 

During  all  these  days,  first  of  war,  and  then  of  horror 
and  of  crime,  the  American  Embassy,  flying  the  flag  of 
our  country,  was  a  protection  and  a  place  of  safety. 

Mr.  Washburne's  commission  as  minister  was  signed 
March  17,  1869.  He  reached  New  York  after  his  resig- 
nation on  the  23d  of  September,  1877,  and  from  that  date 
made  Chicago  his  residence.  His  friends  were  ever 
dearer  to  him  than  his  honors.  He  writes  of  those  whom 
he  knew  in  his  boyhood,  the  companions  of  his  father 
"here  in  this  far  off  besieged  city  in  these  long  dismal 


48  MEMORIALS. 

days  I  think  of  them  all,"  and  of  the  friends  of  his  man- 
hood with  great  warmth   of  affection.      All  through  his 
diary  there  runs  a  vein  of  earnest  allegiance  to  persona 
ties. 

He  was,  as  wrote  a  Latin  poet,  as  words  of  highest 
praise,  "Justum  et  tenacem  propositi  virum,"  a  just  man 
and  strong  of  purpose,  He  was  sagacious,  self-reliant, 
cool  and  collected;  as  an  observer  of  men  and  things, 
independent  in  his  judgment  and  fearless  in  its  expres- 
sion. His  personal  character  was  without  a  breath  of 
suspicion,  and  confidence  and  respect  followed  him. 

His  enduring  monument  is  the  part  he  took  in  shap- 
ing the  destinies  of  this  great  nation. 

E.    B.    McCAGG, 
A.   L.   CHETLAIN, 
W.  A.   MONTGOMERY, 

Committee. 


JOHN  LEVERETT  THOMPSON. 

Colonel  First  A'ezf  Hampshire  Cavalry  and  Brevet  Brigadier 

General,   United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at 

Chicago,   January  ji,  1888. 

IN  writing  of  the  Solicitor  General  of  England  in  the 
beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century,  Lord  Brougham 
says:  "  It  is  fit  that  no  occasion  on  which  Sir  Samuel 
Romilly  is  named  should  ever  be  passed  over  without  an 
attempt  to  record  the  virtues  and  endowments  of  so  great 
and  so  good  a  man  for  the  instruction  of  after  ages.  Few 
persons  have  ever  attained  celebrity  of  name  and  exalted 
station  in  any  country  or  in  any  age  with  such  unsullied 
purity  of  character  as  this  equally  eminent  and  excellent 
peison.  His  virtue  was  stern  and  inflexible,  adjusted 
indeed  rather  to  the  rigorous  standard  of  ancient  morality 
than  to  the  less  ambitious  and  less  elevated  maxims  of 
the  modern  code. 

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5O  MEMORIALS. 

"  He  was  in  truth  a  person  of  the  most  natural  and 
simple  manners,  and  one  in  whom  the  kindliest  charities 
and  warmest  feelings  of  human  nature  were  blended  in 
the  largest  measure  with  that  firmness  and  unrelaxed 
sincerity  of  principle  in  almost  all  other  men  found  to  be 
little  compatible  with  the  attributes  of  a  gentle  nature 
and  the  feelings  of  a  tender  heart. 

"  The  observer  who  gazes  upon  the  character  of  this 
great  man  is  naturally  struck  first  of  all  with  its  most 
prominent  feature,  and  that  is  the  rare  excellence  which 
we  have  now  marked  so  far  above  every  gift  of  the  under- 
standing, and  which  throws  the  lustre  of  mere  genius 
into  the  shade." 

All  this  might  be  recorded  of  our  late  Companion, 
General  John  L.  Thompson,  at  one  time  a  Vice-Com- 
mander. The  character  which  in  him  rounded  out  and 
marked  him  as  citizen  and  lawyer  is  defined  by  the 
adjectives  fair,  true,  kind,  equable,  earnest  and  firm. 

But  in  this  Commandery  and  in  other  organizations 
having  their  origin  from  like  causes,  it  is  well  to  note 
that  these  qualities  developed  the  soldier,  and  in  turn 
were  brightened  and  enlarged  by  the  experiences  of  a 
soldier's  life. 

The  majority  of  the  voters  of  the  present  day  in  the 
United  States  have  no  recollection  of  the  war  of  the 
Rebellion  drawn  from  personal  experiences  or  participa- 
tion. To  their  minds  the  war  is  presented  in  the  form 
of  historical  statement. 

To  those  who,  in  the  winter  of  1860-1861,  watched 
the  rise  of  the  spirit  of  rebellion,  the  vacillation  of  the 
administration,  the  inauguration  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  the 
hesitation  to  supply  Fort  Sumter,  the  secession  of  South 
Carolina,  the  firing  of  the  first  gun,  the  call  to  arms,  the 
events  of  that  and  the  four  subsequent  years,  if  at  this 


MEMORIALS.  51 

distance  of  time  almost  a  dream,  are  yet  a  dream  with 
the  vividness  of  reality.  There  was  nothing  then  in  Mr. 
Thompson  to  mark  him  for  the  field.  To  militia  service 
or  the  pomp  of  parade  he  had  shown  no  liking  or  apti- 
tude. Quietly,  reservedly,  modestly,  he  was  closing  the 
course  of  study  which  should  fit  him  for  the  practice  of 
his  chosen  profession. 

But  he  was  missed,  and  after  two  days  his  friends 
having  a  suspicion  where  he  might  be,  found  him  in  line 
in  the  old  Armory  building  in  Chicago,  standing  where 
the  present  Rookery  building  now  is.  Some  sapient 
officer  had  advised  that  men  who  should  enlist  should  be 
kept  in  confinement,  not  appreciating  that  volunteers  as 
six  to  one  to  fill  the  call  were  then  ready.  Thompson 
was  in  the  ranks  undergoing  an  inspection  of  some  sort, 
and  as  the  hand  was  given,  said:  "You  see  I  have  done 
it,"  words  characteristic  in  their  brevity  and  expressive 
of  a  resolution  born  of  thoughtful  purpose. 

That  evening  he  departed  for  Cairo,  amid  the  cheers 
of  a  multitude  on  the  lake  front.  There  visitors  found 
him  a  month  or  more  later,  corporal  of  a  battery,  calmly 
performing  in  mud  and  rain  the  duties  which  he  had 
assumed — drilling  and  making  ready.  So  he  remained 
until  disease  overtook  him,  and  at  or  about  the  close  of 
the  three  months'  service  he  went  to  his  old  home  in 
Massachusetts,  whither  his  family  had  moved  from  New 
Hampshire,  apparently  permanently  disabled,  for  he  had 
never  been  very  strong.  His  battery  for  the  most  part 
re-enlisted.  His  friends  at  Chicago  joined  the  service 
under  later  calls,  but  mostly  in  the  West. 

When  next  heard  of  he  had  recovered  and  was  First 
Lieutenant  in  the  First  Rhode  Island  Cavalry,  formed  of 
three  battalions,  one  from  New  Hampshire,  his  native 
State,  another  from  Massachusetts  and  a  third  from 


LI.  nc  in 


52  MEMORIALS. 

Rhode  Island.    The  regiment  entered  upon  active  service 
in  Virginia  and  was  assigned  to  the  Shenandoah. 

On  December  3,  1861,  Lieutenant  Thompson  became 
Captain;  on  July  3,  1862,  Major;  on  July  11,  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  and  on  January  4,  1863,  Colonel.  In  March, 
1864,  he  resigned  to  take  the  command  of  the  First  New 
Hampshire  Cavalry,  which  honorably  shared  in  the  com- 
mand of  Sheridan  the  memorable  skirmishes,  battles  and 
pursuits  of  that  year.  He  was  brevetted  for  distinguished 
services.  To  say  of  him  that  he  was  always  ready,  that 
he  had  his  command  in  hand,  that  he  was  prudent  and 
yet  bold  even  to  daring,  that  whether  in  the  charge  or  in 
holding  the  fruits  of  victory  he  was  equally  prompt, 
efficient  and  able,  is  to  say  only  what  was  said  spontan- 
eously by  all  who  were  with  him. 

One  of  his  enlisted  men  said,  looking  upon  his  re- 
mains as  they  lay  in  his  residence,  "There  is  the  best 
and  bravest  man  that  ever  lived,"  a  testimonial  the  value 
and  strength  of  which  every  officer  knows. 

Occasions  like  this  are  frequent;  memories  rise  and 
thicken,  but  it  is  not  permitted  to  lengthen  or  fill  out  the 
sketch.  In  the  reports  of  three  States  are  the  records 
of  his  achievements. 

The  full  measure  of  the  man  is  better  recognized  in 
the  outlines;  and  we  therefore  sadly  but  proudly  in  simple 
but  few  words,  give  this  our  tribute  to  the  one  of  our 
number  who  has  last  passed  away. 

GEO.  W.  SMITH, 
E.  B.  McCAGG, 
H.  W.  JACKSON, 

Committee. 


THOMAS   CORDIS   CLARKE. 

Second  Lieutenant  Thirty-ninth  Massachusetts  Infantry  and  Brevet 

Major,    United   States   Volunteers.      Died  at 

Chicago,  Illinois,  July  6,  1888. 

O  REVET  Major  Thomas  Cordis  Clarke,  a  companion 
H  J  of  this  Commandery  of  the  First  Class,  died  July  6, 
1888,  at  his  home  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  after  an 
illness  of  three  days.  Before  his  sudden  and  fatal  attack, 
he  was  apparently  in  the  prime  and  vigor  of  manhood. 
Physically  an  athlete,  mentally  and  in  demeanor  a  man 
of  unusually  even  temper,  always  cheerful,  friendly, 
companionable,  sympathetic,  never  flurried  or  excited  in 
his  own  behalf  or  in  his  own  interests,  his  best  work,  his 
most  earnest  endeavor,  was  put  forth  in  behalf  of  his 
friends.  He  was  one  of  those  rare  men  of  whom  it  might 
be  truly  said,  he  delighted  more  in  the  good  of  others 

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54  MEMORIALS. 

than  in  his  own  prosperity.  The  name  of  friend  and  the 
quality  of  friendship  is  better  defined  and  of  more  vigor- 
ous fibre  when  coupled  with  his  memory.  He  was  the 
friend  of  all  the  members  of  this  Commandery;  he  loved 
the  Loyal  Legion  and  all  its  members.  Next  to  his 
family,  this  Order  was  the  dearest  association  on  earth 
to  him. 

He  was  loyal  and  true  in  all  things,  loving  his  country 
passionately,  well  nigh  worshiping  the  old  flag,  beneath 
whose  shining  folds  he  proudly  marched,  in  boyish  pride, 
through  Baltimore's  bloody  streets,  joining  the  Sixth 
Massachusetts  Infantry  in  April,  1861.  He  attained  the 
rank  of  Captain  when  Gettysburg  was  fought,  in  1863. 
Had  the  war  found  him  more  mature  in  years,  with  his 
splendid  physique  and  sterling  qualities  of  mind  and 
heart,  it  is  hard  to  say  what  official  rank  he  might  not 
have  attained.  As  it  was,  he  was  younger  than  most  of 
us,  dying  at  the  age  of  forty- six.  But  no  matter  what 
his  rank,  he  was  in  every  sense  a  man,  manly  in  his 
actions  and  aspirations,  gentle  and  kind,  sincere,  honest 
and  honorable. 

Major  Clarke  was  intensely  imbued  with  State  pride — 
the  right  sort  of  pride.  He  was  proud  of  Massachusetts 
because  she  never  swerved  in  her  devotion  to  the  flag. 
Well  might  she  be  proud  of  such  a  son.  We  have  reason 
to  be  proud  of  such  a  companion.  The  city  of  Chicago, 
upon  whose  official  roster  the  name  of  our  dead  friend 
appeared  for  more  than  a  decade,  has  reason  to  be 
proud  of  him.  No  hint  or  suspicion  was  ever  whispered 
against  his  fair  fame.  Oh,  rare  embodiment  and  com- 
bination of  most  excellent  virtues!  Brave  soldier,  stead- 
fast friend,  untarnished  public  officer!  For  thy  valor  we 
will  lay  upon  thy  tomb  the  heroic  emblems — a  broken 
sword,  a  wreath  of  laurel  leaves.  For  thy  immaculate 


MEMORIALS.  5  5 

friendship,  thou  deservest  the  love  of  thy  brethren;  and 
for  thy  unsullied  integrity  thou  hast  earned  the  compan- 
ionship of  the  just. 

CHARLES  FITZ  SIMONS, 
JOHN  W.   STREETER, 
TAYLOR  P.   RUNDLET, 

Committee. 


ALBERT  ZABRISKIE  GRAY. 

Chaplain  Fourth  Massachusetts  Cavalry,   United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  February  27,  i88g. 

3INCE  our  last  meeting  another  vacancy  has  occurred 
in  the  ranks  of  our  Commandery,  and  we  are  called 
upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  Chaplain  Albert  Z.  Gray, 
who  died  in  Chicago,  after  a  brief  illness,  on  the  2/th  day 
of  February,  1889.     Although  one  of  our  later  members, 
he  was  warmly  attached  to  our  organization,  and  it  was 
a  source  of  regret  to  him,    as  to  us,   that  his  exacting 
duties  as  Warden  of  Racine  College  prevented  his  more 
frequent  attendance. 

Chaplain  Albert  Zabriskie  Gray  was  born  in  the  City 
of  New  York,  of  an  old  and  distinguished  family,  on  the 
second  of  March,  1840.  He  was  educated  at  the  Univer- 

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MEMORIALS.  57 

sity  of  New  York,  where  he  graduated  in  1860.  He 
immediately  entered  upon  the  preparatory  studies  for 
the  ministry  in  Geneva,  Switzerland,  which  were  com- 
pleted later  at  the  General  Theological  Seminary  of  the 
Episcopal  Church,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  where  he 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Potter  in  1864. 

He  was  profoundly  moved  by  the  great  struggle  then 
going  on  for  the  preservation  of  this  government,  and  his 
admission  to  the  ministry  was  hastened  by  Bishop  Potter 
to  enable  him  to  accept  the  position  of  Chaplain  in  the 
Fourth  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  commanded  by  Colonel 
Rand,  now  Recorder  of  the  Commandery  of  the  State  of 
Massachusetts.  He  promptly  took  the  field  with  his 
regiment,  where  he  shared  with  it  the  glories,  perils, 
hardships  and  privations  of  the  magnificent  Cavalry 
Corps  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  in  1864  and  1865, 
commanded  by  that  illustrious  soldier,  Lieutenant  Gen- 
eral Sheridan. 

Chaplain  Gray  was  captured  by  the  enemy  in  one  of 
the  many  battles  in  which  he  participated,  and  was  a 
prisoner  of  war  when  General  Lee  surrendered  at  Appo- 
mattox  Court  House  in  1865.  During  his  service  in  the 
army  he  became  especially  endeared  to  his  command, 
and  was  a  devoted,  faithful  soldier,  in  the  hospital  and 
around  the  camp  fire,  in  the  ranks  of  those  "who  fought 
without  guns." 

Upon  the  return  of  peace  he  accepted  the  rectorship 
of  a  parish  at  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained 
two  years,  when  ill  health  compelled  him  to  resign.  He 
then  visited  the  principal  countries  of  Europe;  extended 
his  travels  to  Egypt  and  the  Holy  Land,  and,  upon  his 
return  to  the  country  he  had  helped  to  restore,  he  ac- 
cepted a  parish  at  Garrisons  on  the  Hudson,  where  he 
remained  until  1882,  when  he  was  elected  Warden  of 


58  MEMORIALS. 

Racine  College.  He  brought  to  his  new  field  of  labor, 
in  the  West,  a  mind  cultivated  by  study  at  home  and 
abroad,  and  a  lofty  zeal  in  his  work,  to  which  he  faith- 
fully devoted  himself  with  marked  ability  and  success 
until  his  resignation  in  December,  1888. 

Chaplain  Gray  was  a  man  of  culture  and  marked 
literary  ability;  he  was  a  frequent  contributor  of  fugitive 
pieces  to  the  press.  Among  others,  a  poem  upon  the 
death  of  Canon  Charles  Kingsley  and  one  upon  the  fight 
at  "Tel  el  Keber, "  in  Egypt,  attracted  marked  attention. 
He  published  several  books,  among  which  were  a  collec- 
tion of  sacred  poems,  a  collection  of  studies  in  Palestine, 
"The  Land  and  the  Life,"  and  "  Mexico  As  It  Is." 

His  death,  in  Chicago,  at  the  early  age  of  forty-nine, 
in  the  flower  of  manhood,  with  a  wide  career  of  usefulness 
and  honor  before  him,  was  a  misfortune  deeply  to  be 
deplored. 

He  labored  with  zeal  and  earnestness  in  every  position 
to  which  he  was  called.  In  private  life  he  was  warm 
hearted,  cultivated  and  courteous — a  perfect  type  of  the 
Christian  gentleman. 

Chaplain  Gray  left  a  widow  and  a  wide  circle  of  de- 
voted friends  but  no  child  to  bear  his  name  or  succeed 
him  on  the  rolls  of  the  "  Loyal  Legion." 

His  work  is  done;  we  can  truthfully  say  of  him  in  his 
own  beautiful  language  in  one  of  his  sacred  poems: 

"  Oh,  happy  they  whose  faith  and  love 
Through  grave  and  gate  of  death  endure! 
Thrice  happy  they,  who  from  its  sleep 
Rise  to  the  vision  of  the  pure." 

The  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  bear- 
ing in  mind  his  sterling  qualities  as  soldier  and  citizen, 
tenders  its  respectful  sympathy  to  his  bereaved  widow 
and  his  relatives  and  friends,  and  directs  that  this  minute 


MEMORIALS.  59 

of  regard  to  the  memory  of  Chaplain  Albert  Zabriskie 

Gray  be  entered  upon  its  records. 

EPHRAIM  A.  OTIS, 
AMOS  J.  HARDING, 
JAMES  NEVINS  HYDE, 

Committee. 


ANSON  SPERRY. 

Major  and  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Marengo,  Illinois,  Augtist  24,  1889. 

ONCE  again  is  our  first  fall  gathering  saddened  by  the 
knowledge  that,  since  our  last  meeting,  one  more 
of  our  number  has  been  called  away,  and  to  his 
home.      On   Saturday  evening,   August    24,    1889,    died 
Major   and   Brevet   Lieutenant    Colonel   Anson   Sperry, 
late  Paymaster  of  Volunteers. 

Earnest  and  loyal  in  character,  Colonel  Sperry  felt 
deeply  the  personal  responsibility  inherent  in  his  citizen- 
ship, and  from  the  moment  when  war  was  made  a  neces- 
sity, he  was  warmly  and  earnestly  active  in  his  neighbor- 
hood, in  furthering,  in  his  own  modest  but  efficient  way, 
to  the  best  of  his  ability,  the  prompt  and  best  fulfilling 
of  our  country's  calls  for  soldiers  and  their  needs. 

60 


MEMORIALS.  6 1 

As  the  months  of  the  years  of  1861  and  1862  passed, 
with  their  disheartening  record,  and  the  immensity  of 
the  struggle  for  national  existence  became  apparent, 
Colonel  Sperry  recognized  and  accepted  the  duty  resting 
upon  each  citizen  of  our  land  in  its  need,  to  give  to  the 
utmost  of  his  personal  service,  and  without  thought  of 
sacrifice  he  closed  up  his  business  connections  and  offered 
his  services  to  his  country. 

Already  approaching  the  age  deemed  unfitting  for  the 
needs  of  a  soldier's  service  in  the  field;  untrained  and  in- 
experienced in  soldierly  duties,  but  thoroughly  equipped 
in  experience  of  business  modes  and  in  exact  accounting, 
he  knew  that  his  best  service  to  his  country  lay  in  some 
position  of  business  responsibility;  and  in  accordance 
with  his  request,  he  was  appointed  Paymaster  of  Volun- 
teers in  February,  1863,  and  joined  at  once  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland. 

During  the  years  1863,  '64  and  '65,  Colonel  Sperry 
was  prompt,  efficient,  conscientious,  active,  ofttimes 
daring,  and  always  thorough  and  exact,  in  the  full  per- 
formance of  the  trying  and  responsible  duties  that  the 
shifting  scenes  and  varying  localities  of  the  war  made 
necessary.  In  December,  1865,  he  was  mustered  out; 
and  to  the  acknowledgment  from  the  Paymaster  Gener- 
al's office  of  the  receipt  and  settlement  of  his  accounts, 
was  added  an  autograph  and  complimentary  note  of  ap- 
preciation, stating  that  his  had  been  one  of  the  very  few 
of  the  accounts  then  finally  settled  and  closed,  that  had 
been  found  without  error  and  fully  exact. 

Returning  to  civil  life  Colonel  Sperry  found  himself, 
like  many  another  in  those  days,  not  only  broken  in 
health  from  his  services  for  his  country,  but  outside  the 
current  of  business  ways  or  of  business  connections  that 
could  enable  him  to  resume  the  support  of  his  family  in 


62  MEMORIALS. 

a  fitting  manner.  After  several  years  of  an  experience, 
unhappily  not  rare  for  those  who  during  the  war  had 
served  loyally  and  with  whole  hearts  their  country,  he 
formed  a  business  relation  with  our  late  honored  and 
revered  Associate  Member  of  the  Third  Class,  the  Hon. 
Mark  Skinner,  and  with  him  for  some  twenty  years  was 
entrusted,  in  our  city,  with  the  administration  and  wise 
care  of  many  millions  of  trust  funds,  and  with  a  confi- 
dence that  was  always  justified  in  his  rectitude  and  loyal 
exactness. 

As  has  been  well  said  of  him,  in  a  personal  letter,  by 
one  who  had  known  him  well  and  had  trusted  him  largely: 
"Perfect  in  integrity,  in  industry,  zeal,  faithfulness,  sim- 
plicity, and  in  self-forgetting  devotion  to  the  needs  of 
others,  Colonel  Sperry  was  an  unfortunately  rare  man; 
and  one  whom  none  who  knew  him  well  could  spare." 

We,  in  our  Commandery,  knew  Colonel  Sperry  in  an 
especial  way;  as  we  know  those  who  have  been  tested 
and  tried,  and  found  in  times  of  trial  and  need,  always 
loyal  and  brave  and  true.  We  shall  receive  no  more  his 
modest  and  quiet  greeting;  we  shall  enjoy  no  more  with 
him  the  reminiscences  of  war  days;  we  shall  miss  and 
mourn  him  at  our  future  meetings. 

Resolved,  That  our  Commandery  tender  to  the  family 
of  our  late  companion,  sincere  sympathy  in  the  great 
loss  that  has  lately  come  to  them. 

SARTELL  PRENTICE, 
WM.   E.   STRONG, 

E.  A.   OTIS, 

Committee. 


EDWARD   BURGIN   KNOX. 

Major  and  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel,  United  States  Army.     Died  at 
Chicago,  April  9,  1890. 

I  HE  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of 
i^  the  Loyal  Legion  has  again  been  called  upon  to 
mourn  the  loss  of  an  honorable  companion,  Colonel 
Edward  B.  Knox,  one  whose  martial  spirit  united  him 
with  the  military  history  of  his  adopted  State,  long  be- 
fore the  Civil  War  called  out  the  latent  patriotism  of 
this  country. 

Colonel  Knox  first  served  as  an  enlisted  man,  in  the 
National  Guards  Cadet  Corps,  organized  in  Chicago, 
March  19,  1856;  again,  in  the  United  States  Cadets,  or 
Ellsworth  Zouaves  Corps,  where  we  find  him  serving  as 
Second  Sergeant,  and  from  this  almost  to  the  date  of  his 
death  his  service  has  been  continuous. 

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64  MEMORIALS. 

After  the  first  shot  was  fired  on  Sumter  he  lost  no 
time  in  tendering  his  services  to  his  country.  He  was 
commissioned  First  Lieutenant,  Eleventh  New  York 
Infantry,  U.  S.  V.,  April  23,  1861;  promoted  Captain, 
Forty-fourth  New  York  Infantry,  July  4,  1862;  Major, 
July  14,  1862;  Lieutenant  Colonel  (not  mustered),  August 
27,  1863.  He  was  mustered  out  October  11,  1864,  to 
receive  an  appointment  in  the  Regular  Army  as  Second 
Lieutenant. 

He  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant,  Twenty-first 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  June  16,  1865,  serving  thereafter  in 
various  honorable  details,  until  May  7,  1870,  when  he 
was  placed  on  the  retired  list  on  account  of  wounds. 

He  was  brevetted  Captain  for  "gallant  and  meritor- 
ious services  "  at  Hanover  Court  House;  brevetted  Major 
for  Gettysburg,  and  brevetted  Lieutenant  Colonel  for 
Spottsylvania  Court  House. 

Recognizing  the  importance  of  a  thoroughly  organized 
National  Guard,  he  again  entered  the  service  of  the  State 
of  Illinois  as  Captain  Co.  B,  First  Infantry,  September 
8,  1874;  Major,  First  Infantry,  April  10,  1875,  resigned 
February  14,  1876.  He  again  entered  the  State  service 
as  Captain  Co.  F,  First  Infantry,  October  15,  1877;  was 
promoted  Major,  July  30,  1878,  Lieutenant  Colonel, 
March  19,  1879,  and  Colonel,  October  11,  1882.  Fail- 
ing health  compelled  him  to  tender  his  resignation, 
which  was  accepted  April  6,  1889.  His  death  occurred 
April  9,  1890. 

But  no  mere  record  of  military  service  will  give  the 
history  of  Colonel  Knox.  His  life  cannot  be  measured 
by  dates  of  commissions,  or  periods  of  duty.  For  into 
these  commissions  he  poured  out  all  the  strength  of  his 
life,  striving  as  few  men  have  striven  to  make  these 
periods  fruitful.  In  his  career  as  a  soldier  he  exemplified 


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the  three  graces  of  the  warrior — courage,  obedience,  loy- 
alty— never  faltering  in  times  of  danger,  never  hesitating 
in  a  swift  compliance  with  all  orders  given  him;  and  at 
all  times  rendering  a  true  and  cordial  support  to  his 
commanders. 

As  a  man,  he  was  genuine  to  the  core,  never  assum- 
ing either  position  or  acquirement  not  fully  his;  he  was 
simple,  refined,  and  courteous;  generous  to  a  fault  in  the 
only  gifts  he  had  to  give — his  time,  his  abilities  and  his 
earnest  untiring  efforts;  of  these  he  gave  without  stint  to 
his  city,  state  and  country.  He  gave  according  to  the 
sacred  injunction,  "without  thought  of  recompense"; 
and  that  this  giving  was  liberal,  and  without  expectation 
of  return,  his  limited  estate  speaks  eloquently. 

Resolved,  That  this  memorial  be  spread  upon  the 
records  of  this  Commandery,  and  that  a  copy  of  the 
same  be  forwarded  to  the  daughter  of  Colonel  Knox. 

EDGAR  D.  SWAIN, 
CHAS.   FITZSIMONS, 
CHARLES  R.   E.   KOCH, 

Committee. 


SAMUEL  RUSH    HAVEN. 

Major  and  Surgeon,   United  States  Volunteers.    Died  at  Neiv  Lenox, 
Illinois,  May  4,  1890. 

I  A  f  E  are  again  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a  com- 
*••(.  panion;  one  highly  distinguished  in  his  sphere  of 
duty  during  the  Civil  War,  and  one  who  had  just  become 
a  member  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion 
when  the  silent  messenger  of  the  Most  High  called  him 
from  us. 

At  the  meeting  held  on  April  10,  1890,  Samuel  Rush 
Haven,  Major  and  Surgeon  of  United  States  Volunteers, 
was  elected  a  companion  of  the  Order  through  this  Com- 
mandery, but  before  the  next  meeting,  when  he  would 
have  regularly  taken  his  place  among  us,  he  had  passed 
from  time  to  eternity. 

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Dr.  Haven  was  born  at  Sheridan,  Chautauqua  county, 
New  York,  on  the  29th  day  of  January,  1827,  and  died 
at  the  residence  of  his  brother,  Dwight  Haven,  on  May 
4,  1890,  in  the  sixty-fourth  year  of  his  age.  His  father, 
emigrated  to  the  neighborhood  of  Chicago,  in  the  fall  of 
1834,  bringing  with  him  the  doctor,  then  a  child  less  than 
eight  years  old.  His  young  life  was  passed  with  the 
incidents  and  struggles  common  to  those  who  lay  foun- 
dations in  a  new  country.  Upon  entering  manhood  he 
chose  the  profession  of  medicine  as  his  life  work,  and 
matriculated  at  Rush  Medical  College,  in  1847.  He 
graduated  in  due  course  with  distinction  in  his  class. 
He  afterwards  practiced  his  profession  with  great  success, 
going  to  California  in  1850,  and  returning  to  Chicago  in 
1853,  where  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  J.  W. 
Freer.  In  religious  faith  the  doctor  was  a  Congrega- 
tionalist;'  in  politics,  a  free-soiler  and  abolitionist. 

When  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon  he  immediately 
abandoned  the  emoluments  of  his  private  practice  and 
was  among  the  very  first  to  enroll  himself  among  that 
noble  body  of  physicians  and  surgeons,  who,  amid  all 
the  hardships  and  privations  of  a  soldier's  life  in  the 
field,  devoted  their  professional  experience  and  skill  to 
relieving  the  sufferings  and  saving  the  lives  of  those  of 
us  who  were  stricken  with  disease  or  wounded  in  the 
service  of  our  country;  and  to  whose  unselfish  devotion 
many  of  us  are  indebted  for  what  of  health  and  life  we 
have  enjoyed  in  the  remnant  of  our  days. 

On  April  21,  1861,  Dr.  Haven  volunteered  on  the 
first  expedition  to  Cairo,  under  Brigadier  General  Swift. 
Alterwards  on  August  3,  1861,  he  was  mustered  into  the 
service  of  the  United  States,  as  Major  and  Surgeon  of 
Volunteers,  and  entered  upon  his  duties  in  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac,  attached  to  the  brigade  of  General  W.  F. 


68  MEMORIALS. 

Smith  as  Brigade  Surgeon.  He  was  afterwards  Division 
Surgeon  under  General  Heintzelman,  and  Corps  Surgeon 
under  General  Hancock.  He  was  also  with  General 
Grant's  command  at  Memphis.  He  resigned  his  com- 
mission on  March  9,  1863.  Since  the  war  his  home  has 
been  in  Chicago,  though  absent  a  great  deal  in  traveling 
abroad.  After  leaving  the  army  he  did  not  resume  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  but  gave  much  of  his  attention 
to  investments  in  real  estate,  in  which  by  the  exercise  of 
sound  judgment  he  was  abundantly  successful. 

In  the  death  of  Dr.  Haven  the  Commandery  suffers 
the  loss  of  a  companion,  who,  in  the  crisis  of  the  great 
rebellion,  served  his  country  with  unselfish  devotion,  and 
great  professional  distinction,  and  who,  in  civil  life,  in 
the  quiet  and  honorable  discharge  of  all  its  duties,  has 
borne  himself  without  blemish  or  reproach. 

JOSEPH  B,   LEAKE. 
ELIJAH   B.  SHERMAN, 
OLIVER  W.  NIXON, 

Committee. 


JULIUS    WHITE. 

Brigadier  General  and  Brevet  Major  General,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  May  12,  1890. 

IN  1861  Julius  White  laid  aside  the  emoluments  of  an 
important  office,  in  whose  tenure  he  was  assured,  to 
raise  and  command  an  Illinois  regiment.  Of  modest 
fortune,  he  did  not  hesitate,  at  the  call  of  the  country, 
to  exchange  civic  place,  power,  and  large  revenue,  for 
the  hardships,  chances,  perils,  and  modest  pay  of  a  field 
officer  in  a  volunteer  regiment.  From  September,  1861, 
until  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  constantly  on  arduous 
duties.  He  was  promoted  Brigadier  General  and  Brevet 
Major  General  for  gallant  and  meritorious  services.  His 
successes  are  a  part  of  the  history  of  the  armies  East 
and  West,  and  were  obtained  on  many  fields  of  glory, 

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70  MEMORIALS. 

from  Pea  Ridge  and  Knoxville  to  Petersburg  and  the 
defenses  of  Richmond. 

Trained  as  a  civilian  General  White  entered  the  army 
when  the  sun  of  his  life  had  far  passed  the  meridian  line, 
but  his  ceaseless  study,  his  close  application,  his  native 
love  of  arms,  and  his  earnest  patriotic  devotion,  easily 
made  him  a  noble  officer,  fitted  to,  and  exercising  large 
commands.  The  numerous  orders  of  congratulation, 
those  badges  of  decoration  for  the  American  officer,  which 
were  issued  to  him,  speak  the  appreciation  his  superiors 
entertained  of  his  ability  and  bravery;  and  when,  at  the 
close  of  the  great  war,  the  headquarters  flag  of  the 
Ninth  Corps  was  given  into  his  custody  by  companions- 
in-arms  who  had  long  seen  it  wave  over  his  tent  in  rest, 
and  by  his  side  in  battle,  those  who  bestowed  it  gave 
with  it  their  hearts'  best  wishes  and  their  sincere  admi- 
ration for  the  commander,  and  comrade,  and  friend. 
He  prized  it  more  than  a  marshal's  baton,  and  held  it 
dear  as  his  life  through  all  the  following  years. 

Two  of  the  members  of  your  committee  were  associ- 
ated with  General  White  from  1861  until  the  close  of  his 
life.  We  knew  his  worthy  desires  and  noble  ambitions, 
and  with  that  thorough  knowledge  we  bespeak  for  him 
the  affectionate  regard  of  this  Commandery,  and  a  high 
place  among  the  names  of  our  illustrious  dead.  He  was 
a  brave  soldier,  a  man  who  performed  thoroughly  and 
well  all  the  duties  which  the  fortunes  of  war,  or  the 
claims  of  civil  life  put  upon  him;  and  the  world  is  the 
better  for  his  having  passed  through  it. 

Content  with  the  moderate  successes  of  civil  life, 
cherishing  the  enduring  memories  of  the  days  of  battle, 
one  bright  honor  he  deeply  craved — to  be  chosen  Com- 
mander in  this  noble  Order.  His  wish  was  gratified; 
and  then  in  peace  and  modest  silence  he  passed  from 


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these  scenes  to  the  greater  ones  that  lie  beyond  the  line. 
But  with  him,  and  the  beloved  and  worthy  of  God  and  of 
man,  "there  is  no  death,  only  a  going  down  of  the  stars 
to  rise  upon  fairer  shores." 

Your  committee  submit  the  foregoing  report  and  fol- 
lowing resolution: 

Resolved,  That  the  foregoing  report  be  approved  and 
spread  upon  the  records,  and  that  copies  thereof,  signed 
by  the  Commander  and  Recorder  of  this  Commandery, 
be  presented  to  the  widow  and  family  of  the  deceased. 

JOHN   C.    BLACK, 
E.    A.    BLODGETT, 
JOHN  L.    BEVERIDGE, 

Committee. 


JOHN  ADAMS   FITCH. 

Major  First  Illinois  Light  Artillery  United  States  Volunteers 
Died  at   Chicago,  July  //,  1890. 

3ILENTLY  and  often  the  ranks  of  the  Loyal  Legion 
are  closing  upon  the  vacant  spaces  left  by  those 
who  have  heard  life's  tattoo  for  the  last  time,  and 
now  lie  with  arms  at  rest  to  await  the  reveille  at  the 
Resurrection.     Another  one  of    those  who   near  thirty 
years    ago    responded    with  all   the  spendid  courage  of 
youth  to  the  call  of  an  outraged  country,  has  gone  out 
from  among  us. 

Major  John  Adams  Fitch  died  on  the  evening  of  July 
i  ith,  after  a  quiet  business  life  passed  in  the  employ  of 
the  United  States  Government  for  the  years  succeeding 
his  active  participation  in  the  Civil  War.  He  left  a  wife 
whose  devotion  during  a  long  period  of  illness  greatly 

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MEMORIALS.  73 

lightened  the  intense   physical  suffering    which  he  was 
called  upon  to  endure. 

Major  Fitch  was  born  and  grew  to  manhood  in  the 
State  of  Vermont,  and  he  had  had  but  a  few  years  ex- 
perience in  business  at  Chicago  previous  to  July,  1861, 
when  he  became  a  member  of  Battery  E,  First  Regiment 
Illinois  Artillery,  being  mustered  into  the  United  States 
service  as  Junior  First  Lieutenant  of  the  same  Battery 
in  the  December  following.  In  May,  1863,  he  became 
Captain,  and  later  Major,  serving  with  the  Army  of  the 
Tennessee  until  his  muster  out  in  August,  1865. 

Efficient  as  an  artillerist,  zealous,  alert  and  cour- 
ageous as  an  officer,  he  was  duly  valued  by  his  division 
and  corps  commanders.  One  of  the  various  emergencies 
when  he  was  called  to  vital  service  was  at  Guntown, 
when,  as  a  forlorn  hope,  his  battery  was  placed  in  front 
and  directed  to  hold  the  enemy  in  check  until  the  infan- 
try and  cavalry  had  fallen  back  in  safety  to  the  rear. 

As  a  man,  he  possessed  all  the  noble  attributes  of 
friendship;  patient  with  the  vagaries  of  those  he  esteemed 
and  true  as  steel  to  all  who  called  him  friend,  he  had  a 
grim,  sardonic  detestation  of  shams  and  pettiness.  These 
peculiarities  endeared  him  to  those  so  fortunate  as  to 
know  him  intimately  and  made  him  extremely  popular 
with  that  large  class  of  business  men  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact  during  many  years'  service  as  a  deputy 
collector  at  the  Port  of  Chicago. 

For  the  Loyal  Legion,  Major  Fitch  felt  the  most  in- 
tense regard  and  pride,  and  we  bespeak  for  him  from  our 
comrades  of  this  Commandery  an  affectionate  remem- 
brance. RICHARD  S.  TUTHILL, 

ABIAL  R.   ABBOTT, 
ALONZO  N.   REECE, 

Committee. 


ROBERT  HENRY  LEWIS. 

First  Lieutenant  First  Delaware  Independent  Battery,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  November  27,  1890. 

THE  unflagging  march  of  time  adds  year  upon 
year  to  the  already  distant  epoch  in  our  country's 
history  upon  which  the  Loyal  Legion  formed  its 
association,  it  is  but  natural  that  we  should  be  more  fre- 
quently summoned  in  sorrow  to  perform  the  last  rites  at 
the  biers  of  departed  comrades  who  have  closed  their 
records  here  and  have  joined  the  great  majority.  We 
are  already  living  among  the  loved  and  hallowed  memo- 
ries of  dear,  brave  comrades  who  have  crossed  the  river 
and  are  waiting  to  welcome  us. 

But  each  new  loss  of  a  loved  and  honored  companion 
brings  its  own  fresh  grief  and  regret,  and  none  more 
deeply  felt  than  the  loss  of  Lieutenant  Lewis. 

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MEMORIALS.  75 

First  Lieutenant  Robert  H.  Lewis  died  at  his  home 
in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  November  27,  1890.  As  a  soldier, 
citizen  and  friend,  his  life  was  without  blemish,  and  his 
untimely  loss  will  be  mourned  by  all  who  knew  him.  For 
the  Loyal  Legion  Lieutenant  Lewis  felt  the  deepest  re- 
gard and  a  soldier's  pride,  and  the  surviving  members  of 
the  Order  will  cherish  his  memory  in  affectionate  en- 
durance. 

HENRY  S.  PICKANDS, 
A.  EGERTON  ADAMS, 
JAMES  W.  BALL, 

Committee. 


THADDEUS   HURLBUT  CAPRON. 

First  Lieutenant  (retired}.   United  States  Army.     Died  at 
Sharon  Hill,  Pennsylvania,  December  24,  1890. 

ONCE  more  we  are  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of 
an  admired  and  beloved  companion,  almost  in  the 
prime  of  life  —  a  life  made  much  shorter  by   the 
hardships,  privations  and  campaigns  of  the  battles  of  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion  and  on  the  Frontier,  extending  over 
a  period  of  about  twenty-seven  years. 

Major  Thaddeus  H.  Capron  died  at  Sharon  Hill,  Penn- 
sylvania, where  he  had  recently  settled  with  his  family. 
Major  Capron  entered  the  service  as  private  in  the 
Fifty-fifth  Illinois  Infantry,  September  9,  1861;  was  pro- 
moted to  Quartermaster  Sergeant  November  25,  1862; 
discharged  to  accept  a  commission  March  i,  1863.  He 

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MEMORIALS.  77 

was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  Fifty-fifth  Illinois 
Infantry  September  4,  1862;  promoted  First  Lieutenant 
and  Regimental  Quartermaster  August  i,  1863.  He  was 
commissioned  Captain  and  Assistant  Quartermaster,  U. 
S.  V.,  June  i,  1865;  promoted  Major  and  Quartermaster 
June  6,  1865;  honorably  mustered  out  of  the  service 
October  31,  1865.  He  was  commissioned  Second  Lieu- 
tenant in  Ninth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  June  22,  1867,  and 
promoted  to  First  Lieutenant,  November  8,  1871,  which 
commission  he  held  until  within  a  few  years,  when  he 
reluctantly  retired  from  the  army,  on  account  of  physi- 
cal disabilities. 

Major  Capron  participated  in  all  the  glorious  achieve- 
ments of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  and  in  the  Indian 
campaigns  of  the  West,  with  distinction.  No  more  en- 
thusiastic and  patriotic  young  soldier  undertook  the  de- 
fense of  his  country  in  1861,  than  he. 

He  has  gone  from  among  us  and  we  sincerely  mourn 
him,  not  only  as  a  companion  of  the  Order  of  the  Legion, 
but  as  a  true  man  in  every  relation  of  life.  In  this  hour 
of  trial  we  extend  to  his  family  our  heartfelt  sympathy 
and  the  assurance  that  we,  his  fellow  officers,  will  cherish 
his  memory  to  the  end. 

ARTHUR  C.   DUCAT, 

JUDSON    D.     BlNGHAM, 

JOHN  T.   McAuLEY, 

Committee. 


ABIAL   RALPH  ABBOTT. 

First  Lieutenant  First  Illinois  Artillery,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago.  January  9,  1801. 

"TLBIAL  RALPH  ABBOTT  was  born  April  5,  1832, 
l\  at  Cobbleskill,  N.  Y.  He  received  his  academic 
^*  education  at  Amherst  college,  and  his  professional 
training  in  the  Harvard  Law  School  and  in  the  office  of 
Hon.  Daniel  S.  Dickinson  at  Binghamton. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1857  or  1858  and  began  the 
practice  of  the  law  with  excellent  prospect  of  success. 
Ardent  in  his  love  of  country  and  intense  in  his  hatred  of 
all  forms  of  slavery  and  oppression  he  took  an  active 
part  in  the  presidential  contest  which  resulted  in  the 
election  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  And  when  war  came,  his 
patriotic  fervor  reaching  the  point  of  white  heat  natur- 

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MEMORIALS.  79 

ally  made  him  among  the  first  to  respond  to  the  call  for 
troops. 

Lieutenant  Abbott  enlisted  April  21,  1861,  as  a  pri- 
vate in  Battery  A,  First  Illinois  Light  Artillery;  was  pro- 
moted Senior  First  Lieutenant  in  Battery  E  of  the  same 
regiment  in  December,  1861.  This  Battery  was  attached 
to  General  W.  T.  Sherman's  Division,  and  in  the  battle 
of  Shiloh  is  said  to  have  fired  the  first  shot. 

In  this  terrible  and  bloody  struggle  Lieutenant  Abbott 
was  severely  wounded  by  a  minie  ball  in  the  left  shoul- 
der, the  effect  of  which  lasted  through  life,  making  it  im- 
possible for  him  to  raise  his  left  arm  or  to  bear  any 
weight  upon  it.  He  however,  as  soon  as  permitted,  re- 
joined his  command  and  was  again  wounded  in  the  Talla- 
hatchie  Campaign.  In  March,  1863,  "on  account  of 
wounds  received  in  battle  and  resulting  disability,"  he 
resigned  his  commission  and  returned  to  Chicago  to  re- 
sume the  practice  of  law. 

Language  can  add  nothing  to  the  eloquence  of  such 
a  record  of  prompt,  brave,  loyal  service  in  the  cause  of 
country  and  freedom.  The  same  absolute  fidelity  to 
truth  and  a  high  sense  of  duty  which  actuated  our  com- 
panion and  friend  at  this  beginning  of  his  career  and  sent 
him  into  the  army,  there  to  do  his  share  towards  the 
preservation  of  a  republican  form  of  government  and  our 
free  institutions  was  through  life  a  notable  characteristic 
of  him  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  member  of  the  honorable 
profession  of  the  law.  In  his  professional  life  his  promi- 
nent characteristic  was  his  perfect  fairness  and  honesty. 
This  quality  arose  not  from  motives  of  expediency  or 
policy,  but  was  so  ingrained  in  his  very  nature  that  he 
accorded  the  same  virtues  to  his  fellow  men  as  a  neces- 
sary attribute  of  their  humanity. 

He   possessed   a   strong,  clear  mind,    enriched  by  a 


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broad  and  liberal  reading  not  alone  in  the  law  but  as 
well  in  the  ampler  and  sweeter  fields  of  poetry  and  gen- 
eral literature. 

His  home  life  was  ideal.  In  the  tender  and  true  love 
(the  tenderest  and  truest  love  this  world  can  give)  of  a 
cultivated  and  congenial  wife  and  two  fond  daughters, 
Abbott  found  ever  his  content  and  earthly  happiness. 

To  this  family  the  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Mili- 
tary Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  of  which  Lieutenant 
Abbott  was  a  highly  honored  and  justly  esteemed  com- 
panion, herein  tender  condolence  and  sympathy. 

RICHARD  S.   TUTHILL, 
HENRY  W.   CALDWELL, 
ALLEN  C.  WATERHOUSE, 

Committee. 


HENRY  WILLIAM  BETLEY  HOYT. 

Captain  One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  United 
States  Volunteers.    Died  at  Chicago,  February  12,  1891. 

ONCE  again  on  the  march  through  life  are  we  halted 
to  close  the  ranks  of  this  Commandery,  from  which 
has  fallen  a  loved  and  faithful  companion,  who  has 
answered  to  the  final  roll  call. 

Another  of  the  many  heroes,  who  in  the  hour  of  its 
greatest  peril  so  nobly  responded  to  the  Nation's  call  for 
help,  and  with  all  the  zeal  and  earnestness  of  his  nature 
did  what  best  he  could  to  protect  it  from  impending 
danger,  has  folded  his  cloak  about  him  and  lain  down  to 
that  sleep  from  which  there  is  no  waking. 

Captain  Henry  William  Betley  Hoyt  died  on  the 
evening  of  February  12,  1891,  at  his  home  in  Chicago, 

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surrounded  by  his  family  and  friends,  who  had  labored 
unceasingly  but  without  avail  to  bring  back  that  life  so 
dear  to  them. 

Captain  Hoyt  was  born  June  25,  1841,  at  Henry,  Illi- 
nois, where  the  earlier  years  of  his  life  were  passed. 
Afterwards,  removing  to  Chicago,  he  became  a  member 
of  Ellsworth's  Zouaves.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Re- 
bellion he  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry, 
commanded  by  Colonel  George  B.  Hoge,  and  afterwards 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  in  the  same  regiment, 
serving  with  distinction  in  the  Second  Division,  Fifteenth 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  at  Chickasaw  Bayou, 
Arkansas  Post,  Miliken's  Bend,  Vicksburg,  Jackson  and 
Eastport,  a  part  of  the  time  as  Signal  Officer  at  the  in- 
stance of  General  Sherman,  who  entertained  for  him  the 
highest  regard. 

Brave  and  fearless  as  a  soldier,  he  was  at  the  same 
time  courteous  to  all.  Of  a  disposition  naturally  genial 
and  happy,  his  presence  was  a  sunshine.  In  whatever 
capacity  he  was  called  upon  to  serve,  he  left  behind  him 
the  evidence  of  duty  well  performed. 

In  his  membership  he  has  honored  this  Commandery, 
and  it  is  meet  that  his  name  should  be  honored  by  the 
affectionate  remembrance  of  his  companions. 

CHARLES  W.  DREW, 
NELSON  THOMASSON, 
FREDERICK  W.  MERCER, 

Committee. 


HOSMER  ALLEN  JOHNSON. 

Companion  of  the  Third  Class.     Died  at  Chicago,  February  26,  i8qi. 

I  HE  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  in  the 
V.    death  of  Dr.  Hosmer  A.  Johnson,  which  occurred  on 
the  26th  day  of  February,  1891,  at  his  home  in  Chicago, 
has  lost  one  of  its  most  esteemed  and  honored  members. 
His  career  was  one  of  unusual  distinction  and  useful- 
ness.   He  was  born  near  Buffalo,  New  York,  in  1822,  but 
his  parents  ten  years  later  moved  to  Michigan,  where  he 
passed  his  youth  and  early  manhood.     He  was  educated 
at  the  Michigan  University,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1849. 

Dr.  Johnson  came  to  Chicago  in  1850,  where  for  more 
than  forty  years  he  pursued  his  profession  and  devoted 

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himself  to  the  science  of  medicine  with  a  zeal  which 
knew  neither  change  nor  shadow  of  turning.  He  was 
among  the  earliest  Professors  in  Rush  Medical  College, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago  Medical  College, 
and  one  of  its  Professors  until  his  death. 

It  is  believed  that  no  man  did  more  to  elevate  the 
standard  of  medical  education  in  the  United  States  than 
Dr.  Hosmer  A.  Johnson;  and  to  no  one  is  that  learned 
profession  under  greater  obligations.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  for  many  years  President  of  the  Chicago 
Academy  of  Sciences;  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Mercy 
Hospital;  a  consulting  physician  of  the  Cook  County 
Hospital,  and  of  the  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary; 
indeed,  it  would  be  difficult  to  name  a  single  scientific  or 
charitable  association  in  Chicago,  with  which  he  was  not 
prominently  and  actively  identified. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  War  for  the  Union,  Dr. 
Johnson  abandoned  a  lucrative  practice,  and  offered  his 
services  to  his  country,  and  for  four  years,  as  President 
of  the  Board  of  Examining  Surgeons  for  Illinois,  rendered 
valuable  and  faithful  service.  It  was  a  source  of  pro- 
found regret  that  his  health,  which  was  delicate  from 
childhood,  prevented  him  from  accepting  active  service 
in  the  field;  but  his  knowledge,  skill,  and  scientific  at- 
tainments were  otherwise  devoted  to  the  service  of  his 
country,  and  when  his  duties  called  him  to  the  front  to 
examine  Assistant  Surgeons  for  promotion,  he  was  re- 
peatedly brought  into  battle  and  served  under  fire  as  a 
surgical  operator. 

After  the  great  fire  in  Chicago,  as  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society,  he  gave  his  entire  time 
without  fee  or  reward,  for  many  months,  to  the  needy 
and  destitute  poor  of  our  city. 

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recognized  by  his  election  as  a  member  of  the  Third 
Class  by  this  Commandery — an  honor  which  he  always 
highly  appreciated.  He  was  a  regular  attendant  at  its 
meetings  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  its  growth  and  pros- 
perity. 

His  career  was  rounded  and  complete,  and  at  his 
death,  no  man  in  his  profession  or  in  the  city  where  he 
lived,  was  held  in  higher  esteem.  His  warm  heart,  and 
gentle,  kindly  disposition,  won  the  regard  and  friendship 
of  all  who  knew  him,  who  unite  with  us  in  mourning  for 
his  loss,  and  "sorrow  most  of  all  that  they  shall  see  his 
face  no  more." 

The  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  bear- 
ing in  mind  his  great  public  services,  and  the  purity  of 
his  life  and  character,  has  directed  this  mark  of  regard 
for  his  memory  to  be  entered  upon  its  records,  and  that 
the  Recorder  send  a  copy  to  his  bereaved  family. 

EPHRAIM  A.   OTIS, 
EDMUND  ANDREWS, 
THOMAS  B.   BRYAN, 

Committee. 


ALONZO    VAN  NESS    RICHARDS. 

Second  Lieutenant  Signal  Corps,  United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at 
Warren,  Illinois,  March  if,  i8qi. 

'TfjNOTHER  Companion  of  this  Commandery  has 
f\  joined  the  silent  majority.  Lieutenant  Alonzo 
^*  V.  N.  Richards  passed  away  at  the  residence  of 
his  father-in-law,  Hon.  S.  K.  Miner,  at  Warren,  Jo 
Daviess county,  Illinois,  March  1 1,  1891,  aged  fifty  years. 
Lieutenant  Richards  responded  in  September,  1861, 
to  his  country's  call  for  troops,  enlisting  in  Company  H, 
Seventh  Wisconsin  Infantry,  which  served  with  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac  and  participated  in  nearly  all  the  engage- 
ments of  that  army.  February  14,  1865,  he  was  pro- 
moted Second  Lieutenant  for  meritorious  conduct,  and 
attached  to  the  Signal  Corps,  U.  S.  V. 

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MEMORIALS.  87 

After  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  ordered  to  report 
to  General  P.  C.  Connor  at  Fort  Laramie,  Wyoming 
Territory,  for  duty  as  Signal  Officer,  serving  with 
efficiency  in  General  Connor's  campaign  against  the 
Indians  during  the  year  1865.  He  was  mustered  out  of 
service  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  December  9,  1865. 

As  a  citizen  Lieutenant  Richards  was  known  as  an 
ardent  worker  in  the  cause  of  right,  which  he  was  sure 
to  espouse  according  to  the  dictates  of  his  conscience, 
manifesting  the  same  zealous  spirit  that  characterized 
him  as  a  soldier  during  the  war. 

During  several  years  he  was  editor  and  proprietor  of 
the  Freeport  Journal.  Strong  in  his  political  faith,  he 
was  unyielding  and  determined  even  to  severity.  Retir- 
ing from  the  political  field  to  the  more  quiet  pursuits  of 
life,  he  was  noted  for  his  loyalty  in  his  friendships. 

He  was  one  of  the  most  devoted  husbands  and  fathers 
and  his  home  life  was  one  of  the  happiest.  Those  who 
knew  him  best  will  mourn  the  loss  of  a  true  friend  and 
genial  companion. 

To  his  bereaved  family  we  tender  our  heartfelt  sym- 
pathy in  the  great  loss  that  has  come  to  them,  and  we 
request  that  a  copy  of  this  tribute  to  his  memory  be 

furnished  them. 

JOHN  E.  SMITH, 
JOHN  C.  SMITH, 
CHARLES  S.  BENTLY, 

Committee. 


CHARLES  DANIEL  RHODES. 

Captain  and  Assistant  Adjutant  General,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  March  8,  1891. 

I  HE  grim  destroyer  which  we  call  death  has  of  late 
V  made  deep  inroads  upon  our  noble  and  dearly  be- 
loved Order,  claiming-  for  its  victims  some  who  (speaking 
in  human  terms)  had  but  entered  the  prime  of  life  and 
fairly  taken  a  firm  hold  upon  the  problems  thereof,  with 
bright  prospects  of  unravelling  them — those  who,  having 
had  an  honorable  and  brilliant  career  as  soldiers,  had 
quietly  passed  into  the  avenues  of  business,  carrying 
therein  the  same  characteristics  that  had  made  their  im- 
press while  daring  and  doing  for  their  country's  cause. 

Charles  D.  Rhodes  was  born  at  Franklin  Mills,  Ohio, 
on  September  16,   1839.      In  October,   1861,  he  enlisted 


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as  a  private  soldier  in  the  Eighty-fourth  Ohio  Infantry; 
promotions  in  regular  order  following  until  on  February 
9,  1865,  he  was  appointed  Captain  and  Assistant  Adjutant 
General,  U.  S.  V.,  from  which  position  he  resigned  on 
June  9,  1865,  having  seen  continuous  service  for  three 
years  and  eight  months,  and  participated  in  campaign 
and  battle  with  honor  to  himself  and  to  the  cause  he  had 
espoused — Knoxville,  Reseca,  Dallas,  Kenesaw,  Atlanta, 
Columbia,  Franklin,  Nashville,  Fort  Anderson  and  Wil- 
mington, are  engraved  on  his  escutcheon. 

Some  time  after  the  close  of  the  war,  he  left  his 
native  State  to  make  his  home  in  Chicago.  For  a  num- 
ber of  years  success  came  to  him  in  business,  and  a 
prosperous  life  seemed  to  be  an  assured  fact.  Reverses 
came  to  try  as  by  fire  a  solid,  substantial  character,  and 
through  them  all  he  passed  unscathed. 

In  response  to  an  inquiry,  one  of  Captain  Rhodes's 
intimate  friends,  who  holds  a  prominent  position  in  our 
city,  writes  as  follows: 

' '  In  regard  to  a  sketch  of  the  life  of  my  friend,  Charles 
D.  Rhodes,  I  have  to  say,  that  I  have  known  Captain 
Rhodes  for  over  twenty  years,  and  he  was  always  a  very 
modest,  quiet,  unassuming  and  retiring  person;  slow  to 
make  friends,  but  after  once  knowing  him  he  was  a  faith- 
ful and  devoted  friend.  He  was  of  a  very  self-sacrificing 
disposition,  never  hesitating  to  put  himself  out  to  do  any 
one  a  favor  or  kindness." 

Upon  March  8,  1891,  the  summons  came,  and  obedient 
to  the  call,  he  passed  into  the  great  beyond. 

Let  us  think  of  him  not  as  dead,  but  having  passed 
into  the  true  life,  that  is  as  endless  and  boundless  as 
eternity  itself.  HOLMES  HOGE, 

THOMAS  S.   CUNNINGHAM, 

ARCHIBALD  WINNE, 

Committee. 


CHRISTOPHER  GOODBRAKE. 

Major  and  Surgeon  Tzvcntieth  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Clinton,  Illinois,  March  16,  i8qi. 

I  HE  rolling  of  the  muffled  drums  has  scarcely  died 
^  away.  The  soft,  sad  notes  of  the  trumpet,  wailing 
out  a  last  good  night,  still  linger  in  the  air;  and  yet  again 
are  we  called  upon  to  pay  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
another  departed  companion,  Major  and  Surgeon  Chris- 
topher Goodbrake.  The  clouds  of  woe  lower  densely 
about  our  Commandery.  Our  official  correspondence 
comes  heavily  freighted  with  the  emblems  of  mourning. 

"  And  eyes  are  dimmed  as  honored  name 
Of  comrade  loved  is  spoken  low." 

Christopher  Goodbrake   was    born    in    the   town   of 
Wiirtemberg,  Germany,  on  the   I4th  day  of  June,   1816. 

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He  graduated  from  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago,  in 
1855,  and  practiced  medicine  continuously  in  Illinois, 
except  during  the  war,  until  his  death.  He  settled  in 
the  town  of  Clinton,  and  during  these  early  days  was  an 
intimate  personal  friend  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  who  was  many 
times  his  guest  when  attending  court  at  that  place. 

When  the  war  broke  out,  true  to  the  spirit  of  freedom 
that  had  led  him  to  seek  a  home  in  our  "sweet  land  of 
liberty, "  he  espoused  the  cause  of  his  adopted  country, 
leaving  his  practice,  and  all  that  he  held  most  dear,  to 
serve  in  the  defense  of  those  principles  he  cherished  and 
which  he  firmly  believed  were  of  inestimable  value  to 
those  who  might  corne  after  him. 

He  was  commissioned  as  Surgeon  of  the  Twentieth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  with  the  rank  of  Major,  to 
date  from  May  19,  1861,  and  served  with  his  regiment, 
participating  in  the  battles  of  Fredericktown  (Missouri), 
Fort  Donelson,  Shiloh,  Britton's  Lane  and  various  minor 
skirmishes.  In  the  fall  of  1862,  while  at  La  Grange, 
(Tennessee),  he  was  appointed  Chief  Surgeon  of  the 
Third  Division,  Seventeenth  Army  Corps,  and  partici- 
pated in  the  Holly  Springs  march,  down  the  river  to 
Vicksburg,  the  marches  to  Brownsville,  to  Meridian  and 
in  the  Atlanta  campaign. 

At  the  expiration  of  his  term,  June  13,  1864,  he  was 
requested  by  General  McPherson  and  Medical  Director 
Moore  to  remain  in  the  service.  He  was  re-mustered 
and  served  until  the  close  of  the  Atlanta  campaign  when, 
owing  to  ill  health,  he  resigned  to  take  effect  September 
17,  1 864.  His  resignation  having  been  accepted,  he 
returned  to  Clinton  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  From  this  time  until  his  death,  his  great 
worth  and  influence  in  the  medical  world  was  particularly 
developed.  He  was  upright,  honorable  and  a  man  of 


92  MEMORIALS. 

positive  character.  He  was  a  most  excellent  practitioner 
— a  man  with  a  cultivated  mind  and  clear  judgment. 
Throughout  his  entire  professional  life  he  was  a  staunch 
supporter  of  all  medical  interests  in  the  State,  an  influ- 
ential member  of  the  Illinois  State  Medical  Society  and 
at  one  time  its  honored  President. 

At  his  home,  among  those  he  had  served  so  faithfully 
and  for  so  many  years,  in  the  sunset  of  his  days,  his  long, 
weary  march  o'er  the  dusty  highway  of  life  has  ended. 
Crowned  with  the  glory  of  a  ripe  old  age,  leaving  a 
fragrant  memory  where  he  stood  and  wrought  among  the 
companions  of  his  earlier  years  and  surrounded  by  the 
friends  of  his  later  manhood,  he  passed  away  on  the  i6th 
day  of  March. 

Then  "  Auf  Wiedersehen,"  friend,  companion,  'til  the 
shadows  of  night  shall  fall  about  us  and  the  dawn  of  the 
day  shall  find  us  again  by  your  side  answering  to  the 
reveille  roll  call  in  the  ranks  of  that  innumerable  army 
that  has  marched  beyond  the  sea. 

We  leave  him  to  repose  among  the  scenes  of  his  last 
labors,  with  hearts  full  of  sympathy  for  those  so  sadly 
bereft. 

JOHN  J.   ABERCROMBIE, 
CHARLES  W.   EARLE, 
WILLIAM  A.   MCLEAN, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  EMERSON  STRONG. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  7\velfth  Wisconsin  Infantry  and  Brevet  Brigadier 

General,  United  States  Volunteers.    Died  at 

Florence,  Italy,  April  10,  i8gr. 

I  HE  announcement  of  the  death  of  General  William  E. 

V  Strong  was  received  with  profound  sorrow  by  every 
member  of  this  Commandery.  The  summons  came  to 
him  suddenly,  on  the  loth  of  April,  1891,  at  Florence, 
Italy,  where  he  had  recently  joined  his  family,  hoping 
that  rest  and  change  might  restore  his  failing  health. 
No  merely  formal  tribute  of  respect  will  adequately 
measure  the  affectionate  regard  in  which  he  was  held  by 
all  the  members  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  to  many  of  whom 
he  was  bound  by  ties  of  closest  personal  friendship. 

General  Strong  was  born  at  Granville,  New  York,  on 
the  loth  of  August,   1840.      His  parents  moved  to  Wis- 

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94  MEMORIALS. 

consin  a  few  years  later,  where  he  passed  his  youth  and 
early  manhood.  He  had  just  been  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  his  adopted  State  when  the  firing  on  Sumter  stirred 
his  patriotic  heart,  and  under  the  first  call  for  troops  in 
1 86 1,  his  services  were  offered  in  defense  of  his  country. 
He  immediately  raised  a  company  for  the  Second  Wis- 
consin Infantry,  in  April,  1861,  and  began  his  military 
career  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  where  he  took  an 
honorable  part  with  his  regiment  in  the  first  battles  of 
the  war,  at  Blackburn's  Ford  and  Bull  Run.  A  few 
months  later,  he  was  promoted  Major  of  the  Twelfth 
Wisconsin  Infantry,  and  joined  that  magnificent  Army 
of  the  Tennessee,  with  which  his  name  and  fame  will  be 
forever  associated,  and  where  he  remained  until  the  close 
of  the  war.  There  are  those  present  who  vividly  recall 
his  soldierly  figure,  and  manly  bearing,  as  he  marched 
away  with  his  regiment  not  to  return  until  peace  should 
be  restored  to  a  united  country. 

General  Strong,  at  an  early  period  of  the  war,  for 
bravery  in  battle,  was  assigned  to  duty  on  the  staff  of 
the  gallant  and  lamented  McPherson,  by  whom  he  was 
held  in  the  highest  esteem,  and  he  received  the  last  order 
General  McPherson  ever  gave,  a  moment  before  he  was 
killed  in  the  battle  of  Atlanta,  on  the  22d  of  July,  1864. 
After  the  death  of  General  McPherson,  General  Strong 
remained  on  duty  as  Chief  of  Staff  for  General  O.  O. 
Howard,  until  the  restoration  of  peace  in  1865.  It  is 
sufficient  to  say  of  his  military  record,  that  he  served 
with  distinction  in  every  battle  and  campaign  of  the 
Army  of  the  Tennessee  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of 
the  war.  When  Vicksburg  surrendered  to  that  gallant 
army,  on  the  4th  day  of  July,  1863,  the  honor  of  raising 
the  American  flag  over  its  captured  ramparts,  was  con- 
ferred upon  General  Strong.  He  was  brevetted  Briga- 


MEMORIALS.  95 

dier  General  in  March,  1865,  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
service. 

After  the  war,  General  Strong  came  to  Chicago  to 
engage  in  business,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his 
death.  Although  never  holding  any  official  position,  he 
always  took  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs.  In  all 
business  transactions  he  was  the  soul  of  integrity  and 
honor,  and  no  one  in  the  city  where  he  lived  for  more 
than  twenty  years,  was  held  in  higher  esteem.  He  was 
the  close  personal  friend  of  the  lamented  Sheridan,  and 
his  companion  in  many  excursions  over  the  mountains, 
and  on  our  Western  frontier.  An  interesting  and  graphic 
description  of  one  of  these  trips  with  the  Secretary  of 
War,  to  the  Yellowstone,  in  1875,  was  published  by 
General  Strong  for  private  circulation.  He  was  a  man 
of  culture  and  refinement,  and  he  had  accumulated  at  his 
home  in  Chicago  a  collection  of  original  orders,  letters 
and  other  papers  relating  to  the  war,  of  great  historical 
value  and  interest.  Of  a  frank,  manly,  and  generous 
disposition;  brave,  gallant  and  chivalric;  he  illustrated  in 
his  own  career,  the  highest  and  best  type  of  the  American 
soldier.  He  was  our  Chevalier  Bayard,  "without  fear 
and  without  reproach." 

A  man  of  strong  personality,  enthusiastic  and  of  strik- 
ing appearance,  how  pleasant  and  how  easy  it  is  to  recall 
him;  we  see  him  as  Commander  of  this  Order,  presiding 
and  transacting  its  business  with  dignity  and  dispatch; 
we  see  him  at  the  banquet  table, — and  again  hear  his 
words  of  patriotic  eloquence.  We  see  him  the  central 
figure  of  the  group,  leading  in  the  stirring  songs  of  the 
war.  The  members  of  this  Commandery  will  miss  his 
friendly  greeting  more  and  more  as  the  years  pass  by, 
and  will  recall  with  inexpressible  sadness 

"  *     the  touch  of  a  vanished  hand, 
And  the  sound  of  a  voice  that  is  still." 


96  MEMORIALS. 

He  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  this  Com- 
mandery,  in  which  he  always  took  a  deep  interest,  and 
served  for  one  term  as  its  Commander.  He  fully  appre- 
ciated the  honor  of  such  a  position,  and  frequently  stated 
that  he  esteemed  it  higher  than  any  office  in  the  gift  of 
the  people.  His  tender  memory  shall  rest  in  the  faithful 
keeping  of  his  associates  of  this  Commandery,  who  knew 
him  best  and  loved  him  most,  until  we  in  turn  shall  have 
joined  the  great  majority;  and  his  well-earned  fame  shall 
constitute  a  part  of  the  heritage  to  be  transmitted  to 
those  who  shall  perpetuate  our  Order  through  coming 

time. 

EPHRAIM  A.   OTIS, 
JAMES  L.   HIGH, 
ARTHUR  C.   DUCAT, 
DAVID  H.   GILE, 

HUNTINGTON    W.    JACKSON, 

CHARLES  W.   DREW, 
RICHARD  S.   TUTHILL, 

Committee. 


HENRY  THEOPHILUS   NOBLE 

Captain  (Colonel  by  Assignment}  and  Assistant   Quartermaster, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Dixon,  Illinois, 

April  75,    i8qi. 


''FLGAIN  the  Companions  of  this  Commandery  are  ad- 
f\  monished  that  death  is  the  appointed  lot  of  all, 
^^  and  that  when  the  fatal  mandate  goes  forth  it 
must  be  obeyed;  that  neither  wealth,  station,  or  other 
earthly  thing  can  stay  the  power  which  breaks  the  brittle 
thread  of  life  and  takes  from  us  our  cherished  ones.  A 
few  days  ago  there  was  among  us  one  who  loved  this 
Commandery  with  a  passion  as  true  as  that  of  a  mother 
for  her  child.  His  voice  mingled  joyously  with  ours 
when  we  sang  the  old  familiar  war-time  songs.  It  is 
now  silent  in  the  grave,  and  never  again  shall  we  be 

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98  MEMORIALS. 

gladdened  by  his  genial  presence.  To  those  of  us 
who  knew  him  best  there  is  a  vacancy  here  which  can 
scarcely  be  rilled.  His  death  was  untimely  and  his 
Companions  mourn  as  become  those  who  have  lost  a 
comrade  and  friend. 

Colonel  Henry  Theophilus  Noble  was  born  of  sturdy 
New  England  stock  in  Berkshire  county,  Massachusetts, 
May  30,  1 830.  At  twenty  years  of  age  he  came  to  Dixon, 
Illinois,  his  home  to  the  time  of  his  death.  This  sad 
event  occurred  April  15,  1891,  after  an  illness  of  three 
days.  He  attended  as  a  delegate  the  recent  State  En- 
campment of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  there 
contracted  a  cold  which  resulted  in  pneumonia,  from 
which  he  died.  He  was  followed  to  the  grave  by  a  whole 
community  reverently  mourning.  He  was  universally 
respected  and  died  universally  regretted. 

A  few  days  before  his  death  he  declined  re-election 
to  the  office  of  Mayor  of  the  city  in  which  he  lived.  As 
a  citizen  he  was  public  spirited  and  ever  ready  to  give  of 
his  time  or  his  means  to  promote  the  prosperity  of  the 
community  in  which  he  lived.  As  a  public  official  he 
was  honest,  painstaking,  and  fearless  in  the  discharge  of 
his  duty  as  he  understood  it.  As  a  business  man  he  was 
successful  beyond  the  average.  In  social  life  he  was 
loved,  honored  and  respected.  In  the  circle  of  his  ac- 
quaintances no  man  will  ever  be  more  regretted. 

Colonel  Noble  was  an  ardent  lover  of  his  country. 
He  enlisted  in  the  United  States  service  April  17,  1861, 
being  the  first  man  in  Lee  county  to  enroll  his  name  as 
a  volunteer.  On  the  organization  of  Company  "A", 
Thirteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  he  was  elected  First  Lieu- 
tenant, and  on  May  24,  1861,  commissioned  Captain  to 
rank  from  that  date.  He  commanded  this  company  until 
December,  1862,  when  he  was  detached  and  assigned  to 


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duty  as  acting  Assistant  Quartermaster  on  the  staff  of 
General  W.  A.  Gorman  until  February,  1863,  and  from 
that  date  until  May,  1863,  served  in  a  like  capacity  on 
the  staff  of  General  L.  F.  Ross,  commanding  a  division 
of  the  Thirteenth  Corps,  receiving  honorable  mention 
from  the  latter  in  his  report  of  the  Yazoo  Expedition. 
Subsequently  Colonel  Noble  served  as  aide  on  the  staff 
of  General  P.  J.  Osterhaus  until  July  4,  1863,  participat- 
ing in  all  the  operations  around  Vicksburg  up  to  the  date 
of  its  surrender.  July  8,  1863,  he  was  commissioned  as 
Assistant  Quartermaster,  U.  S.  V.,  serving  with  the 
army  in  the  field,  and  also  in  charge  of  all  river  trans- 
portation at  Helena,  Arkansas.  In  March,  1865,  he  was 
assigned  to  duty  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  as  Assistant 
Quartermaster  of  the  Department  of  Arkansas.  Bre- 
vetted  Major  U.  S.  V.,  March  13,  1865,  and  soon  after 
brevetted  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  Colonel  of  U.  S.  V. 
Was  Colonel  by  assignment  and  Chief  Quartermaster, 
Department  of  Arkansas,  on  the  staffs  of  Generals  J.  J. 
Reynolds  and  E.  O.  C.  Ord  from  June  16,  1865,  to 
October  5,  1866,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged 
from  service. 

In  performing  the  arduous  and  important  duties  which 
devolved  upon  him  he  displayed  signal  ability,  and  was 
warmly  commended  therefor  by  Quartermaster  General 
Meigs.  His  army  life  of  five  and  a  half  years  is  without 
spot  or  blemish.  He  did  his  duty,  and  his  whole  duty, 
to  his  country  in  her  hour  of  need.  What  more  can  be 
added  to  the  record  ?  He  offered  all  he  had  to  give — his 
life  if  need  be — no  man  could  do  more.  He  is  gone  from 
among  us,  but  we  shall  ever  cherish  his  memory.  He 
was  a  brave  and  true  man;  may  we  all  meet  him  in  the 
great  hereafter.  To  his  family  we  tender  our  most  earn- 
est sympathy  in  their  great  bereavement,  and  mourn  in 


TOO  MEMORIALS. 

common  with  his  fellow  citizens  because  one  of  their 

bravest  and  best  has  departed. 

JOHN  D.   CRABTREE, 
A.   C.   BARDWELL, 
L.   B.  CROOKER, 

Committee. 


JOHN  GARDINER  REID. 

Captain  Fifth  United  States  Veteran  Volunteers.     Died  at   Chicago, 
Afril  26,  i8qi. 

ON  SUNDAY,  the   26th  day  of   April   last,   our    late 
Companion  Captain  John  Gardiner  Reid  died    at 
his  home  at  Ravenswood  in  this  city,  in  the  fifty- 
fourth  year  of  his  age. 

He  was  born  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  whence,  a 
year  later,  his  parents  removed  to  Salisbury,  Connecti- 
cut, where  his  father,  Rev.  Adam  Reid,  presided  over  a 
parish  for  upwards  of  forty  years. 

After  our  late  companion  had  taken  a  course  at  Wil- 
liams College,  had  studied  law  and  commenced  its  prac- 
tice, he  removed  to  New  London,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  his  profession  at  the  time  Fort  Sumter  was 


IO2  MEMORIALS. 

fired  upon.  He  enlisted  as  private  in  Company  D  of  the 
Eighth  Regiment  of  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  on  the  i/th 
of  April,  1 86 1,  in  response  to  the  call  of  President  Lin- 
coln for  75,000  volunteers  to  serve  for  three  months. 

On  June  3d  .of  the  same  year  he  re-enlisted  as  private 
in  the  same  company  and  regiment,  to  serve  for  three 
years  or  during  the  war. 

On  July  9,  1861,  as  a  member  of  that  regiment  he 
entered  upon  active  service  in  West  Virginia.  From  that 
time  onward  for  a  period  of  three  years  he  was  in  active 
service,  as  private,  corporal,  sergeant,  first  sergeant, 
second  and  first  lieutenant  and  captain,  serving  also  as 
adjutant  of  his  regiment,  and  assistant  adjutant  general 
of  his  brigade  and  division.  His  service  was  first  under 
General  McClellan,  in  West  Virginia;  then  under  Gen- 
erals Lander  and  Shields  (in  what  came  to  be  known  as 
Shields'  Division),  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley;  then  under 
General  Pope,  in  the  Army  of  Virginia,  and  afterwards 
in  all  the  campaigns  and  battles  of  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac until  the  1 3th  of  July,  1 864,  when  he  left  the  trenches 
in  front  of  Petersburg  to  be  mustered  out  with  his  regi- 
ment. 

He  re-entered  the  service  in  January,  1865,  as  re- 
cruiting officer  for  Hancock's  Veteran  Corps,  in  which  he 
was  commissioned  Captain,  and  served  on  the  staff  of 
General  S.  S.  Carroll,  commanding  First  Division,  as 
Judge  Advocate,  until  honorably  mustered  out  in  Novem- 
ber, 1865. 

He  personally  took  part  in  fifty-seven  different  en- 
gagements with  the  enemy.  Concerning  his  bravery  and 
efficiency  it  is  only  necessary  to  state  the  fact  that  in 
nearly  all  these  engagements  he  was  on  the  staff  of  Major 
General  S.  S.  Carroll,  between  whom  and  our  late  Com- 
panion there  was  that  bond  of  love  and  fellowship  which 


MEMORIALS.  1 03 

grew  in  the  days  that  tried  men's  souls,  and  which  we  all 
recognize  as  the  same  tie  that  has  drawn  and  kept  to- 
gether our  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

Among  the  battles  in  which  he  took  part,  was  the 
Battle  of  Port  Republic.  During  that  battle  he  rode  a 
gray  horse,  and  was  most  conspicuous  for  this  reason, 
and  thereby  was  especially  exposed.  Colonel  Henry  B. 
Kelley,  of  the  Confederate  Army,  in  his  account  of  the 
Battle  of  Port  Republic,  printed  by  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co., 
Philadelphia,  1886,  among  other  things  makes  the  follow- 
ing statement  concerning  a  Federal  officer  as  seen  from 
the  Confederate  side  of  the  battle.  He  says:  "A  con- 
spicuous figure  in  the  battle  scene  at  this  stage  was  a  field 
officer  on  a  gray  charger,  directing  and  leading  the  advance 
of  the  Federal  line.  Referring  to  an  earlier  stage  of  the 
battle,  on  the  right,  near  the  river,  the  commanding  officer 
of  the  Fifth  Virginia,  in  his  report,  makes  mention  of  the 
Federal  officer  upon  a  gray  steed,  who  there  rode  in  front 
of  his  men,  waving  his  hat  and  cheering  them  on;  but  this 
officer,  he  says,  was  soon  picked  off  by  the  Confederate 
sharpshooters.  As  to  this,  he  must  have  been  mistaken, 
for  it  was  doubtless  the  same  intrepid  officer  who  led  the 
last  charge  of  the  Federal  forces  on  that  field,  with  a 
gallantry  so  conspicuous  as  to  win  the  admiration  of  both 
armies.  Whoever  he  was,  there  is  not  a  Confederate 
survivor  of  that  fierce  fight  who  would  not  be  proud  to 
salute  him." 

A  member  of  this  committee  was  in  that  battle,  and 
is  satisfied  from  all  the  circumstances  which  then  came 
within  his  knowledge,  and  from  conversations  since  had 
with  Captain  Reid  and  others,  that  the  gallant  officer 
mentioned  was  none  other  than  our  departed  companion. 

Our  late  Companion,  soon  after  being  mustered  out 
of  the  service,  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 


IO4  MEMORIALS. 

this  city,  in  which  he  always  displayed  the  same  untiring 
energy  and  loyalty  to  the  interests  of  his  clients,  which 
distinguished  him  in  defense  of  the  flag  during  the  war. 
He  leaves  surviving  him  his  widow  and  two  young 
daughters.  To  them  this  Commandery  tenders  its  sym- 
pathy and  claims  the  privilege  of  uniting  its  tears  with 
theirs  in  a  common  sorrow,  they  for  the  loss  of  a  loving 
husband  and  fond  father,  we  for  the  loss  of  an  honored 
companion,  friend  and  brother  in  arms,  always  loyal  and 
true  and  never  found  wanting. 

JOHN  S.   COOPER, 
DAVID  T.  CORBIN, 
WILLIAM  VOCKE, 

Committee. 


FRANKLIN  FOSTER  FLINT. 

Colonel  (Retired),    United  States   Army.     Died   at    Highland   Park, 
Illinois,   September  /j,   1891. 

\i/E  are  called  upon  again  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a 
"R  Companion  of  this  Commandery.  On  Tuesday, 
September  15,  1891,  Companion  Franklin  Foster  Flint 
died  at  his  home  at  Highland  Park,  Illinois.  He  was 
born  at  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  April  29,  1821.  In 
1837  he  was  appointed  a  cadet  from  Massachusetts  to 
the  United  States  Military  Academy,  whence  he  graduated 
in  1841,  and  was  appointed  a  Second  Lieutenant  of  the 
Sixth  Regiment  of  Infantry,  in  which  capacity  he  served 
in  the  Florida  war.  He  rose  gradually  through  the 
different  grades  from  Lieutenant  to  Colonel,  reaching  the 
latter  grade  in  July,  1868. 

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IO6  MEMORIALS. 

The  service  of  Companion  Flint  was  rendered  chiefly 
on  the  frontier,  sometimes  in  garrison  and  again  in  con- 
flict with  hostile  Indians,  from  Florida  to  California.  It 
has  been  said  of  him  in  this  connection  that  "his  wise 
counsel  and  firm  treatment  of  Red  Cloud's  tribe  of  Ogal- 
lallah  Sioux  tended  greatly  towards  bringing  them  to 
terms  of  peace."  In  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he  served 
in  Kentucky,  Ohio,  and  Missouri,  always  with  credit  to 
himself  and  with  satisfaction  to  his  commanders. 

Companion  Flint  had  been  for  several  years  a  resident 
of  Highland  Park,  where  he  was  universally  respected 
and  esteemed,  his  genial  manners  and  gentlemanly 
courtesy  gaining  him  friends  among  all  classes.  He  was 
modest,  unassuming,  and  upright  in  character;  in  all  his 
long  official  life  he  was,  like  the  motto  of  his  ancestors, 
<(  Sine  Maculo." 

JUDSON    D.    BlNGHAM, 

MICHAEL  R.   MORGAN, 
OTHO  H.   MORGAN, 

Committee. 


THOMAS  DEAN. 

Captain   Third  Michigan  Cavalry,    United  States   Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  December  17,  i8gi . 

OUR  Companion,    Captain  Thomas  Dean,    passed  to 
his  final  rest  on  the  i/th  day  of  December,   1891, 
after  a  comparatively  brief  illness,  and  while  in  the 
prime    of    manhood.       By  his  death    this  Commandery 
loses  a  valued  member,  known  to  many  of  us  for  years 
as  a  man  of  untiring  energy,  sterling  virtues,    and  one 
highly  esteemed  by  a  large  circle    of    social  and   com- 
mercial associates. 

Captain  Dean  was  born  in  Wayne  County,  New 
York,  in  1840,  where  he  remained  until  about  1860, 
when  he  went  to  Allegan,  Michigan,  and  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits.  In  September,  1861,  he  enlisted  in 

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IO8  MEMORIALS. 

Company  A  of  the  Third  Michigan  Cavalry.  Full  of 
zeal,  his  latent  abilities  rapidly  developed  and  promotion 
followed.  Early  in  the  history  of  the  Regiment,  it  was 
fit  that  he  should  be  advanced  through  the  several  grades 
of  non-commissioned  officers,  and  in  October,  1862,  he 
was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant.  Again,  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1863,  he  was  promoted  to  the  First  Lieutenancy, 
and  in  October,  1864,  was  made  Captain  of  the  Com- 
pany with  which  he  entered  the  service.  Himself  ex- 
alted by  the  men  he  was  selected  to  lead,  the  great 
commonwealth  was  honored  with  a  brave  and  efficient 
soldier. 

During  the  long  and  eventful  years  of  active  service, 
he  accepted  the  trials  and  severities  of  a  soldier's  life  in 
a  loyal  spirit,  and  was  entitled  to  a  full  share  of  the 
honors  bestowed  upon  the  company  commanders  of  a 
regiment  so  distinguished  as  was  the  Third  Michigan 
Cavalry.  No  braver  man  followed  the  flag  or  participated 
in  the  engagements  of  this  regiment. 

Returning  to  civil  pursuits,  after  the  close  of  the  war, 
our  lamented  Companion  was,  for  a  time,  in  the  office  of 
the  Internal  Revenue  Department,  at  Memphis,  Ten- 
nessee, and  later  on,  was  in  charge  of  the  Collector's 
office  for  Internal  Revenue,  at  Paw  Paw,  Michigan. 
Subsequently,  and  for  nearly  twenty  years,  he  had  been 
engaged  in  insurance,  as  local  agent,  traveling  agent  and 
general  adjuster  for  prominent  companies,  and  in  that 
work  was  best  known  to  many  of  us  as  a  man  of  peculiar 
tact  and  rare  executive  ability.  It  has  been  said,  "As 
an  adjuster,  he  excelled — not  merely  for  his  intelligence 
and  efficiency,  but  for  his  conscientious  work." 

Captain  Dean  joined  this  Commandery,  March  13, 
1 890,  and  has  been  an  enthusiastic  and  valued  member. 
We  extend  to  his  bereaved  companion  and  other  rela- 


MEMORIALS.  1 09. 

tives,  such  expressions  of  sympathy  as  their  great  loss 
may  properly  command  from  his  Companions  in  arms, 
who  loved  a  common  country,  and  followed  the  same 
flag  when  the  Nation  was  in  peril. 

An  upright  man,  a  sincere  friend,  a  patriotic  citizen, 
a  zealous  Companion,  in  whose  death  this  Commandery 
loses  an  exemplary  member. 

WILLIAM  H.   TAYLOR, 
GEORGE  H.   HOLLOWAY, 
SAMUEL  S.   FROWE, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  HENRY  BARRY. 

Captain  Eighth  New   York  Cavalry,    United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  January  5,  1892. 

I  HE  roll  of  muffled  drums  is  heard  with  unwonted 
^  frequency,  and  the  notes  of  one  funeral  dirge  have 
hardly  died  away  before  we  are  again  called  upon  to  bear 
the  remains  of  another  loved  Companion  to  his  last  rest- 
ing place,  thus  being  reminded  that  we  too  shall  soon  be 
summoned  to  report  to  the  Great  Commander. 

To-night  we  would  offer  a  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
Captain  George  Henry  Barry,  who  was  born  February 
9,  1827,  and  died  January  5,  1892. 

He  was  enrolled  as  Captain  of  Company  H,  Eighth 
New  York  Cavalry,  September  23,  1861.  His  service 
was  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  in  which  he  dis- 


MEMORIALS.  I  I  I 

tinguished  himself  as  an  officer  of  firm  and  quiet  de- 
meanor, ever  ready  to  execute  any  order,  however  haz- 
ardous, without  murmur  or  complaint.  He  was  an  ac- 
tive participant  in  many  important  engagements,  among 
which  may  be  mentioned  Winchester  (May  25,  1862), 
Harper's  Ferry  (September  14,  1862),  Antietam  (Septem- 
ber 17,  1862),  Chancellorsville  (May  2,  1863),  Gettys- 
burg (July  1—3,  1863),  Culpepper  (September  13,  1863), 
and  Stevensburg  (November  7,  1863).  In  this  last 
named  engagement  he  was  severely  wounded  and  dis- 
abled for  further  duty,  and  was  honorably  discharged 
February  9,  1864. 

As  a  citizen  and  neighbor  it  can  be  said  that  he  was 
ever  ready  to  uphold  the  right,  and  at  the  same  time  it 
seemed  a  pleasure  for  him  to  sacrifice  his  own  comfort 
and  convenience  if  thereby  he  could  contribute  to  the 
happiness  and  pleasure  of  those  around  him. 

Companion  Barry  was  a  most  devoted  husband  and 
a  kind  and  indulgent  father,  preferring  the  quiet  com- 
panionship of  his  family  to  that  of  any  club  or  social 
society,  and  therefore  was  most  frequently  seen  at  his 
own  fireside,  in  his  cheerful  home,  which  was  one  of  the 
happiest.  Those  who  knew  him  best  will  mourn  the  loss 
of  a  true  and  loyal  friend  and  genial  Companion. 

To  his  family,  in  their  sad  bereavement  and  great 
loss,  we  tender  the  sincere  and  heartfelt  sympathy  of 
loving  Companions. 

THEODORE  H.  PATTERSON, 
LEWIS  B.   MITCHELL, 
JAMES    M.    BALL, 

Committee. 


WARREN  EWEN. 

Acting  First  Assistant  Engineer  United  States  Navy.     Died  at 
Evanston,  Illinois,  January  26,  1892. 

e^PANION  Warren  Ewen  was  appointed  Acting 
Third  Assistant  Engineer,  U.  S.  N.,  January  7, 
1862;  promoted  Acting  Second  Assistant  Engineer,  De- 
cember 13,  1862,  and  Acting  First  Assistant  Engineer, 
November  12,  1863,  and  was  honorably  discharged  from 
service  in  the  United  States  Navy,  November  13,  1865. 

He  served  on  the  United  States  Ship  "Sumter"  in 
the  Charleston  Blockade.  On  May  n,  1862,  he  was 
taken  prisoner  near  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  after  five 
months'  imprisonment  was  released  from  Libby  Prison 
October  1 1,  1862,  and  ordered  to  the  United  States  Ship 
"Iroquois"  in  the  blockade  off  Wilmington,  North  Caro- 


MEMORIALS.  113 

lina.  He  served  on  the  "  Bienville "  in  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico;  was  with  Farragut  in  the  passing  of  Forts 
Morgan  and  Gaines  at  Mobile;  took  part  in  the  blockade 
off  Galveston,  and  was  Engineer  in  charge  of  the  iron- 
clad "  Napa." 

He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Order  through  this 
Commandery,  January  10,  1889;  was  transferred  to  the 
Commandery  of  the  State  of  California,  May  16,  1889, 
and  re-transferred  to  this  Commandery  November  16, 
1891.  He  died  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  January  26,  1892. 

Your  Committee's  knowledge  of  his  life,  beyond  his 
Naval  service,  is  quite  limited.  He  was  born  in  New 
York  City  in  1829,  and  was  married  in  early  life  to  Sarah 
F.  Faulkner,  who  with  five  children  mourns  his  loss. 
His  eldest  son,  Warren  Ewen,  of  this  city,  is  entitled,  by 
inheritance,  to  membership  in  this  Order. 

Shortly  after  the  close  of  the  Rebellion,  Companion 
Ewen  entered  the  service  of  the  Chilian  Government,  as 
Chief  Engineer  of  its  Navy,  and  served  therein  during  the 
war  with  Spain.  With  torpedoes  purchased  through  his 
agency  in  New  York  and  Europe,  he  was  instrumental 
in  driving  the  Spanish  fleet  from  the  Chilian  coast.  After 
the  close  of  the  Chilian  War,  he  was  engaged  in  building 
railroads  in  Chili,  Peru,  and  Bolivia;  returning  to  the 
United  States  in  1872,  residing  at  intervals  in  New  Or- 
leans, New  York,  Chicago  and  San  Francisco.  Beyond 
this,  it  is  enough  to  know  that,  in  his  early  manhood,  he 
tendered  his  services  to  his  country;  suffered  five  months' 
military  imprisonment;  as  a  commissioned  officer  in  the 
United  States  Navy,  for  three  years  and  five  months, 
trod  the  decks  of  four  United  States  war  ships;  sailed 
with  the  immortal  Farragut  past  Forts  Morgan  and 
Gaines  into  Mobile.  Bay;  and  was  honorably  discharged 
from  the  Naval  service  of  the  United  States. 


114  MEMORIALS. 

His  devotion,  life  and  record  entitled  him  to  be  a 
member  of  our  Commandery,  and  as  Companions  of  the 
Order  we  mourn  his  loss,  extend  our  sympathies  to  his 
bereaved  family,  and  will  cherish  his  memory. 

JOHN  L.  BEVERIDGE, 
ARCHIBALD  WINNE, 
CALEB  S.   BURDSAL, 

Committee. 


JOHN  RUSSELL  W1NTERBOTHAM. 

First  Lieutenant  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fifth  New   York  Infantry 

and  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel,  United  States  Volunteers. 

Died  at  Chicago.  January  jo,  1892. 

*7TjT  the  reunion  of  the  Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Ten- 
j\  nessee  and  at  the  meetings  of  the  Commandery 
^*-  last  fall,  there  was  no  one  present  whose  apparent 
health  and  vigor  gave  better  promise  of  a  long  and  use- 
ful life  than  our  late  Companion,  John  Russell  Winter- 
botham. 

Colonel  Winterbotham  was  born  at  Frederickstown, 
Ohio,  February  i,  1843.  At  seventeen  years  of  age  he 
went  to  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. ,  to  prepare  for  a  college  course. 
During  the  vacation  in  September,  1862,  while  visiting 
in  New  York  State,  he  entered  service,  under  the  call 


Il6  MEMORIALS. 

made  at  that  time  by  President  Lincoln,  as  aid  to  General 
Corcoran.  On  March  3,  1863,  he  was  mustered  in  as 
First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-fifth  New  York  Volunteers.  He  was  brevetted 
Captain  March  13,  1863,  and  afterwards  was  brevetted 
Major  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  for  "faithful  and  meritori- 
ous services  during  the  War." 

Colonel  Winterbotham's  service  was,  until  July,  1863, 
in  the  Department  of  Virginia,  in  the  country  around 
Norfolk.  He  participated  in  the  actions  in  and  around 
•Suffolk,  including  the  period  of  the  siege  by  Longstreet. 
His  brigade  was  then  sent  to  Washington,  and  remained 
in  service  in  that  Department  until  the  opening  of  the 
campaign  of  1864,  in  May,  when  it  was  assigned  to  the 
Second  Army  Corps,  with  whose  heroic  deeds  he  was 
associated  during  that  memorable  campaign.  Commenc- 
ing with  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  he  was  in  the 
charge  in  the  angle  at  Spottsylvaniaon  the  I2th  of  May, 
where  the  fighting,  with  only  the  breastworks  between 
the  contending  foes,  lasted  from  early  dawn  till  long 
after  dark  in  the  evening,  when  the  enemy  fell  back  to 
their  inner  intrenchments.  He  was  in  the  charge  at 
Cold  Harbor,  on  June  3,  where  the  loss  of  nearly  ten 
thousand  men  in  the  space  of  an  early  morning  attested 
the  heroic  bravery  of  the  troops  making  the  charge,  and 
where  the  Second  Corps,  after  making  a  lodgment  in 
the  enemy's  works,  was  obliged  to  fall  back  for  want  of 
support.  Colonel  Winterbotham  was  wounded,  but  not 
severely.  There  were  but  forty  in  his  regiment  who 
came  out  of  that  charge  fit  for  duty,  of  whom  he  was  one. 

On  July  1 6,  in  the  storming  of  the  Petersburg  works, 
he  was  severely  wounded,  and  was  honorably  discharged 
on  account  of  the  disability  caused  thereby  on  December 
22,  1864.  On  his  discharge  from  service,  Colonel 


MEMORIALS.  117 

Winterbotham  returned  to  Fort  Madison,  Iowa,  where 
he  had  resided  at  the  time  of  his  entry  into  service,  and 
there  became  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank. 

In  1868  he  removed  to  Chicago,  in  connection  with 
the  contracting  firm  of  J.  H.  Winterbotham  &  Sons,  of 
which  firm  he  became  manager,  and  continued  in  this 
position,  and  as  Vice-President  of  the  Continental  Na- 
tional Bank,  until  the  time  of  his  death,  January  30, 
1892.  In  his  business  career,  his  fidelity  to  his  trusts, 
his  regard  for  the  rights  of  others,  and  his  pleasant  dis- 
position, gained  him  the  love  of  all  under  him,  and  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  did  business. 

Colonel  Winterbotham's  civil  life  was  peculiarly  a 
home  life;  caring  little  for  the  larger  forms  of  social  life, 
he  was  happy  in  the  society  of  his  friends  and  in  his 
family.  Those  of  us  who  knew  him  always  looked  for- 
ward to  the  pleasure  of  meeting  him  at  our  monthly 
gatherings,  and  will  always  feel  the  loss  of  his  genial 
presence  and  cordial  welcome. 

BENJAMIN  W.   UNDERWOOD, 
ISRAEL  P.   RUMSEY, 

GEORGE  K.   DAUCHY, 

Committee. 


ROBERT  BARLOW  HANNA. 

Caftain  Seventy-second  Indiana  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Bloomington,  Illinois.  March  6,  1892. 

etfPANION  Captain  Robert  Barlow  Hanna  was  born 
at  Brookville,  Indiana,  October  29,  1819,  and  died 
at  Bloomington,  Illinois,  March  6,  1892,  of  a  gunshot 
wound  in  the  hip,  received  at  the  battle  of  Chickamauga, 
and  which  caused  nearly  complete  paraplegia  for  more 
than  three  years  prior  to  his  death.  His  remains  have 
been  interred  in  the  burying  ground  of  his  family,  at 
Attica,  Indiana. 

He  was  a  civil  engineer  by  profession;  became 
Captain  of  Company  H,  Seventy-second  Indiana  In- 
fantry Volunteers,  at  that  company's  organization;  served 
in  what  was  known  as  "The  Mounted  Lightning  Brigade," 

118 


MEMORIALS.  119 

and  was  an  active  participant  in  the  maneuvres,  skir- 
mishes, raids  and  battles  in  which  that  command  was 
from  time  to  time  engaged,  until  he  was  disabled  and 
compelled  by  his  injury  to  resign  his  commission. 

Captain  Hanna  was  a  typical  specimen  of  the  Scotch 
Irish  race;  in  which,  and  in  his  ancestors,  he  took  great 
pride.  His  original  Scotch  ancestor  was  a  follower  of 
Cromwell  from  the  west  of  Scotland,  and  settled  in 
County  Down,  Ireland;  where  his  sons,  Robert  and 
Hugh,  after  the  restoration  of  Charles  the  Second,  be- 
came obnoxious  to  the  favorites  of  that  king  because  of 
the  activity  and  aggressiveness  their  father  had  shown; 
and  to  better  their  condition  and  escape  persecution, 
sought  a  home  in  the  American  colonies — then  the  asylum 
of  that  class — and  settled  in  Wilmington,  Delaware. 
Robert  went  from  there  to  Virginia.  His  eldest  son, 
Robert,  went  from  Virginia  to  South  Carolina.  His  son, 
Robert,  was  Surveyor-General  of  that  State;  and  after- 
wards settled  on  the  Whitewater,  at  Brookville,  Indiana. 
His  eldest  son,  Robert,  the  father  of  our  deceased  Com- 
panion, was  the  first  United  States  Marshal  for  the 
territory  of  Indiana,  appointed  by  President  William 
Henry  Harrison,  and  was  also  one  of  the  first  of  the  two 
United  States  Senators  representing  that  State  on  its 
admission,  by  appointment, — one  of  the  Senators-elect 
having  died  before  taking  his  seat. 

Though  otherwise  in  good  health  and  remarkably 
vigorous  for  his  age,  Captain  Hanna  was  at  times  a  great 
sufferer  from  his  wound,  but  he  always  bore  his  affliction 
unmurmuringly  and  with  a  patience  that  was  heroic,  and 
though  helpless,  and  for  a  long  time  before  his  death 
unable  to  move  the  lower  portions  of  his  body,  while  his 
mind  remained  as  clear  and  bright  as  in  the  days  of  his 
vigorous  manhood,  conscious  of  the  fact  that  he  was  but 


I2O  MEMORIALS. 

waiting  for  the  end,  knowing  that  each  week  the  paralysis 
had  crept  a  little  closer  to  the  vital  organs, — yet,  when 
free  from  pain,  he  was  cheerful  and  buoyant,  and  at 
times  overflowing  with  mirth  and  good  nature,  his  crisp 
conversation  and  frank,  jovial  manner  often  enter- 
taining, cheering  and  instructing  those  who  came  to 
comfort  him. 

He  was  instinctively  honest,  with  a  keen  sense  of 
justice  and  fairness;  but  he  was  irritated  by  and  intolerant 
of  anything  that  seemed  tainted  with  cowardice,  false 
pretense  or  hypocrisy.  Plainly  democratic  in  all  his 
tendencies,  a  strict  disciplinarian  but  a  genial  companion 
when  off  duty;  unconscious  of  physical  fear,  and  endowed 
with  great  powers  of  endurance,  he  was  always  at  the 
front  in  every  affair  or  movement  of  interest,  in  civil  as 
well  as  military  life.  He  was  frank,  open,  often  blunt 
and  undiplomatic,  in  his  manner,  giving  emphasis  to  his 
indignant  or  resentful  thoughts  in  terse  Anglo-Saxon. 
He  was  rarely  moved  by  the  ordinary  incidents  of  every- 
day life  or  of  the  camp  or  march,  but  in  the  crisis,  the 
trying  ordeal  of  battle  or  heat  of  mental  controversy,  he 
was  outspoken  in  approval  or  disapproval.  To  the  shirk, 
coward,  marauder  and  pretentious  hypocrite,  he  was  a 
terror  and  a  source  of  constant  apprehension.  He  was 
loved  and  respected  by  the  earnest  soldiers  of  his  com- 
mand, and  by  his  neighbors.  He  did  not  arouse  enthus- 
iasm in  his  command.  He  inspired  confidence^ — con- 
fidence in  his  ability,  and  in  the  ability  of  his  superiors, 
and  in  the  success  of  the  enterprise  in  which  they  might 
be  engaged.  To  the  worn-out,  sick  or  wounded,  and  to 
the  unfortunate  and  suffering,  he  showed  the  tenderness 
of  a  woman;  and  to  all  he  was  generous  to  a  fault:— 

"  Careless  their  merit  or  their  faults  to  scan, 
His  pity  gave,  ere  charity  began." 


MEMORIALS.  121 

Our  deceased  Companion  had  three  brothers  who 
rendered  honorable  service  in  the  army  for  the  Union 
during  the  war: — Major  Claiborne  Hanna,  Paymaster, 
U.  S.  A. ;  Captain  John  L.  Hanna,  Eleventh  Indiana 
Infantry;  Captain  Joseph  Madison  Hanna,  Eighth  Illinois 
Infantry,  mortally  wounded  at  Shiloh.  He  also  had 
three  other  brothers  who  were  outspoken  active  unionists 
during  the  war — AVilliam  H.  Hanna,  Thomas  Hanna  and 
David  Hanna.  His  surviving  children  are  —  Captain 
Robert  Hanna,  United  States  Army  (retired);  Samuel  C. 
Hanna,  William  Hanna  and  Mary  L.  Hanna.  His  de- 
clining years  were  made  cheerful  by  his  children  and  by 
the  children  of  a  deceased  brother — by  Mrs.  H.  C.  Luce, 
with  whom  he  for  many  years  made  his  home,  and  Mrs. 
George  P.  Davis,  whom  he  had  cared  for  in  their  infancy, 
as  well  as  by  a  host  of  friends.  Those  who  knew  him 
longest  and  best,  loved  him  most. 

His  thanatopsis  evolved  no  remorseful  pang;  wrung 
from  him  no  appeal  for  pity  or  for  mercy.  Conscious  of 
the  rectitude  of  his  own  life  and  of  his  right  to  be  re- 
corded as  "one  who  loved  his  fellow  men,"  without 
tremor,  without  doubt,  with  an  abiding  faith  in  the  just- 
ness of  his  Creator  as  a  God  of  Love  and  Mercy,  he  de- 
sired to  begin  his  immortal  life  in  the  great  hereafter 
exactly  as  he  had  lived  here,  simply  "doing  the  best  he 
knew  how."  Amid  loving  friends;  ripe  in  years;  having 
faithfully  served  his  country  and  fulfilled  his  obligations 
to  humanity,  "sustained  and  soothed  by  an  unfaltering 
trust,  he  approached  the  grave  like  one  who  wraps  the 
drapery  of  his  couch  about  him  and  lies  down  to  pleasant 
dreams."  JOHN  McNuLTA, 

WALTER  Q.   GRESHAM, 
THOMAS  E.    MILCHRIST, 

Committee. 


DANIEL  DUSTIN. 

Colonel  One  Hundred  and  Fifth  Illinois  Infantry.     Brevet  Brigadier 

General  United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Carthage, 

Missouri,  March  jo,  i8g2. 

*7Y,GAIN  the  message  which  is  becoming  so  frequent 
f\  reaches  us,  telling  that  another  of  our  Companions 
^*  has  joined  the  Grand  Army  invisible,  and  we  who 
tarry  here  yet  a  little  longer,  place  on  our  record  our 
estimate  of  his  worth. 

General  Daniel  Dustin  was  born  in  Topsham,  Ver- 
mont, October  5,  1820,  where  the  earlier  years  of  his 
life  were  passed.  He  studied  medicine,  taking  a  medical 
course  at  Dartmouth  College,  graduating  therefrom  in 
1846.  He  practiced  his  profession  in  Vermont  and  in 
California  until  1858,  when  he  came  to  Sycamore, 
Illinois,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  1855  and  1856 


MEMORIALS.  123 

he  represented  Nevada  County,  California,  in  the  legis- 
lature. At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Rebellion,  he  en- 
listed in  the  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry,  and  was  mustered 
into  the  service  in  September,  1861,  as  Captain  of 
Company  L.  In  January,  1862,  he  was  promoted  to 
Major  of  that  regiment.  In  September,  1862,  he  was 
made  Colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry;  was  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland, 
and  from  the  beginning  of  the  Atlanta  campaign  to  the 
end  of  the  war,  in  the  First  Brigade,  Third  Division, 
Twentieth  Army  Corps,  serving  for  nearly  three  years 
with  President  Harrison,  who  was  Colonel  of  the 
Seventieth  Indiana,  in  the  same  Brigade.  He  was 
brevetted  Brigadier  General  and  commanded  the  Second 
Brigade  of  said  Division  and  Corps  during  the  latter  part 
of  the  service,  which  culminated  in  the  Grand  Review  at 
Washington,  May  24,  1865. 

Returning  home,  the  General  was  elected  County 
Clerk  of  DeKalb  County,  in  the  Fall  of  1865;  afterwards 
County  Treasurer,  and  then  Circuit  Clerk  of  said  County, 
where  he  served  for  ten  years.  He  has  been  Trustee  of 
the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  of  Quincy,  since  its 
organization,  and  on  May  2,  1890,  he  was  appointed 
United  States  Assistant  Treasurer  at  Chicago,  which 
position  he  held  till  the  time  of  his  death.  He  died  on 
March  30,  1892,  and  was  buried  at  his  home  in  Sycamore, 
the  third  day  of  April,  1892,  leaving  a  widow  and  four 
children.  At  his  funeral  the  following  telegram  from  his 
old  friend  and  comrade,  President  Harrison,  was  read: — 

EXECUTIVE  MANSION,  WASHINGTON,  April  i,  1892. 
JOHN  C.  CRAFT, 

Acting  Assistant  Treasurer  United  States,  Chicago. 
I  have  heard  with  great  sorrow  of  the  death  of  my  old  comrade  and 
friend,  General  Daniel  Dustin.     He  was  a  gallant  soldier  and  a  citizen 
of  sterling  worth.     Please  convey   to  his  family   the  assurance  of  my 
sympathy.  BENJAMIN  HARRISON. 


124  MEMORIALS. 

General  Dustin  was  a  man  who  drew  after  him  a 
friendship  that  was  lasting;  the  more  one  knew  him  the 
better  he  loved  him.  His  was  an  impulsive  and  genial 
nature.  His  generous  heart  and  his  true  worth  drew 
about  him  a  circle  of  acquaintances  who  were  charmed 
into  a  life  long  attachment. 

He  loved  his  country  and  cherished  a  most  ardent 
affection  for  the  old  flag;  while  on  his  deathbed,  not 
many  minutes  before  he  died,  he  requested  to  have  the 
flag  brought  to  his  bedside,  and  as  he  gazed  upon  its 
beautiful  stripes  and  stars,  he  called  for  three  cheers  for 
"Old  Glory." 

His  family  has  lost  a  devoted  husband  and  a  kind 
father;  the  community  in  which  he  lived,  a  beloved 
neighbor  and  friend;  this  Commandery  a  loyal  Com- 
panion; the  Government,  a  faithful  and  trustworthy 
officer,  and  the  Nation  a  patriot.  He  has  passed  from 
the  "known  to  the  unknown,"  from  earth  to  the  here- 
after of  hope  and  faith,  but  his  rare  qualities  of  mind  and 
heart  will  remain  as  pleasant  memories  to  those  who 
knew  and  loved  him. 

EVERELL    F.     DUTTON, 

JAMES  A.   SEXTON, 
THEODORE  S.    ROGERS, 

Committee. 


SAMUEL  BALDWIN  SHERER. 

Major  Fifteenth  Illinois  Cavalry,  United  States  Volunteers.    Died  at 
Hot  Springs,  Arkansas,  July  16,  1892. 

3AMUEL  BALDWIN  SHERER  was  born  at  Mont- 
rose,  Susquehanna  County,  Pennsylvania.  March- 
ing in  the  grand  column  that  peopled  and  devel- 
oped the  West,  the  call  to  arms  found  him  a  resident  of 
Aurora,  Illinois,  where  he  entered  the  service  as  a  mem- 
ber of  a  troop  designated  as  ''Company  A,  Dragoons." 
His  worth  being  quickly  recognized,  he  was  elected  First 
Lieutenant,  his  command  being  immediately  assigned  to 
the  Thirty  sixth  Illinois  Infantry  Volunteers,  then  sta- 
tioned at  Rolla,  Missouri,  which  it  immediately  joined. 
During  the  ensuing  fall  and  winter,  arduous  duties  were 
performed  in  that  Department  under  the  varying  condi- 

125 


126  MEMORIALS. 

tions  which  then  prevailed.  His  Company  was  the  fol- 
lowing year  transferred  to  West  Tennessee,  and  during 
the  battle  of  Corinth,  October  3d  and  4th,  1862,  rendered 
conspicuous  service  as  escort  to  the  commanding  Gen- 
eral, William  S.  Rosecrans.  A  subsequent  assignment 
gave  him  the  Captaincy  of  Company  K,  Fifteenth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Cavalry,  where,  through  the  appreciation  of 
his  superiors  he  was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  Major, 
which  rank  he  retained  until  his  service  terminated  by 
expiration  in  the  autumn  of  1864. 

The  experience  thus  acquired  was  valuable  to  his 
adopted  state  in  the  establishment  and  training  of  its 
National  Guard,  in  which  by  unremitting  toil,  devotion, 
and  personal  sacrifice,  he  rose  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant 
Colonel  of  the  First  Regiment. 

In  the  death  of  Major  Sherer,  which  occurred  at 
Hot  Springs,  Arkansas,  July  16,  1892,  this  Commandery 
loses  a  zealous  Companion,  the  community  a  valued 
member,  and  the  State  an  exemplary  and  patriotic  citi- 
zen and  soldier.  His  life  was  a  well  rounded  one.  His 
quiet,  unassuming  ways,  so  well  known  to  his  personal 
friends,  and  his  devoted  and  most  affectionate  duty  to 
his  family  attest  his  manly  qualities  more  strongly  than 
mere  words  can  express  them.  We  sincerely  mourn  the 
sundering  of  the  fraternal  ties,  growing  stronger  day  by 
day,  as  the  true  nobility  of  the  country  and  the  grand 
characters  the  soldiers  of  this  great  Republic  drop  from 
our  roll  by  death,  but  never  by  dishonor. 

We  shall  hold  the  memory  of  this  most  worthy  Com- 
panion in  affectionate  and  respectful  esteem. 

ARTHUR  C.  DUCAT, 
WILLIAM  L.   BARNUM, 
SAMUEL  S.  FROWE, 

Committee. 


JOHN  CURTIS  BUNDY. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  first  Arkansas  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers, 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  August  6,  1892. 

OUR  late  Companion,  Lieutenant  Colonel  John  Curtis 
Bundy,  was  born  at  St.  Charles,  Kane  County,  Illi- 
nois, on  the  i6th  day  of  February,  1841.  On  the 
7th  day  of  August,  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  what 
was  then  known  as  the  Kane  County  Independent  Cav- 
alry. His  military  service  was  principally  in  the  States 
of  Missouri  and  Arkansas,  and  his  duties  in  camp  and  in 
battle  were  performed  with  such  credit  to  himself  and 
approbation  of  his  superior  officers  that  in  July,  1862,  he 
was,  by  order  of  Major  General  S.  R.  Curtis,  commis- 
sioned as  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  First  Arkansas  In- 
fantry. 

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128  MEMORIALS. 

Broken  in  health  by  the  arduous  duties  of  the  cam- 
paigns in  which  he  took  part,  he  returned  to  his  home, 
taking  up  his  residence  in  Chicago,  where  for  many  years, 
and  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  the  editor  and 
proprietor  of  The  Religio-Philosophical  Journal. 

In  his  editorial,  as  in  his  military  work,  devotion  to 
duty  was  the  one  governing  principle  of  his  life.  He 
sought  to  know  and  to  declare  only  the  truth;  by  it,  he 
insisted,  all  the  cherished  hopes,  the  fond  beliefs,  even 
the  solemn  convictions  of  life  were  to  be  tested. 

Death  loomed  before  and  came  to  him  no  dark  abyss 
in  which  lay  the  unknown,  but  a  narrow  way  leading  to 
another  life.  We,  his  Companions,  who  knew  and  loved 
him,  some  of  us  with  and  some  without  his  faith  in  what 
lies  beyond,  standing  by  his  grave,  with  one  voice  unite 
in  calling  "Faithful  soldier,  upright,  honorable  man, 
true-hearted  friend,  hail  and  farewell." 

AREA   N.   WATERMAN, 
MARTIN  J.   RUSSELL, 
OLIVER  W.    NIXON, 

Committee. 


SABIN   D    PUTERBAUGH. 

Major  Eleventh  Illinois  Cavalry,   Untied  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Peoria,  Illinois,  September  25,  r8q2. 

'Tt.S  THE  touch  of  the  Frost  King's  icy  finger  trans- 
[\  forms  the  beautiful  foliage  of  yesterday  into  the 
^~  withered  and  lifeless  leaf  of  to-day,  so  has  the  cold 
hand  of  death  cut  down  in  the  prime  of  manhood  a  Com- 
panion who  would  have  made  himself  known  and  felt  in 
this  Commandery,  had  he  been  spared  to  us. 

Sabin  D.  Puterbaugh,  the  learned  jurist,  the  eminent 
author,  the  genial  companion,  departed  this  life,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1892,  on  the  eve  of  his  fifty-eighth  birthday  anni- 
versary. Born  amid  the  surroundings  from  which  have 
sprung  a  large  majority  of  America's  scholars,  soldiers 
and  statesmen,  he  passed  from  the  farm  to  the  school, 

129 


I3O  MEMORIALS. 

to  the  teacher's  desk,  to  the  court  room,  to  the  judge's 
bench. 

When  his  country  called  he  was  ready.  Commis- 
sioned as  Major  of  the  Eleventh  Illinois  Cavalry  by  the 
War  Governor  of  his  State,  he  participated  with  his  regi- 
ment in  the  battles  of  Shiloh,  Corinth  and  Bolivar.  Re- 
signing his  commission  on  account  of  failing  health,  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

In  1869  he  was  elected  Circuit  Judge  of  what  was  then 
the  eighteenth  judicial  circuit,  comprising  the  counties 
of  Peoria  and  Stark.  In  1873  he  resigned  the  judgeship, 
preferring  the  more  active  duties  of  the  advocate,  in 
which  he  was  continuously  and  assiduously  engaged  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death. 

Our  deceased  Companion  was  the  author  of  several 
standard  works  on  legal  pleading  and  practice,  which 
may  be  found  in  the  library  of  almost  every  lawyer  in 
the  States  of  Illinois  and  Michigan,  and  was  widely 
known  and  recognized  as  one  of  the  ablest  and  best 
equipped  lawyers  in  the  West.  He  was  endowed  with 
intellectual  abilities  of  a  high  order,  which  he  had  trained 
and  developed  by  careful  and  patient  habits  of  study  and 
observation.  He  was  a  tireless  and  persistent  worker. 
His  reasoning  was  concise  and  exact.  His  wide  and  well- 
digested  knowledge  of  law  and  precedent,  and  his  powers 
of  cogent  and  persuasive  argument  made  him  a  safe 
counsellor  and  a  successful  advocate.  His  warm  and 
generous  heart,  his  broad  charity,  and  his  sunny  disposi- 
tion, attracted  to  him  a  large  circle  of  friends,  and  his 
striking  personality  impressed  itself  on  all  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact. 

Closed  is  the  record  of  a  useful  and  busy  life;  a  life 
full  of  energy  and  worthy  ambition;  a  life  that  gave  as 
well  as  received.  Stilled  is  that  teeming  and  active 


MEMORIALS.  13! 

brain.  The  shadows  of  "the  night  when  no  man  can 
work  "  have  fallen  across  his  path.  He  has  passed  before 
us  to  "Fame's  eternal  camping  ground,"  mourned  by  the 
community  in  which  he  lived,  by  the  profession  that  he 
adorned  and  by  his  Companions  of  the  Military  Order  of 
the  Loyal  Legion,  who  tender  to  the  family  of  our  de- 
parted friend  and  brother,  the  sympathy  born  of  a  com- 
mon bereavement. 

ELIOT  CALLENDER, 
HENRY   P.   AYRES, 
JACOB  C.   HANSEL, 

Committee. 


NATHAN  HALBERT  WALWORTH. 

Colonel  Forty-second  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  October  2g,  1802. 

'TTiNOTHER  manly  face  will  be  missed  from  our  social 
f\  gatherings,  another  genial  spirit  has  passed  away. 
^*  Our  friend  who  faced  danger  on  so  many  battle 
fields  has  finally  answered  to  the  last  roll-call  and  the 
angel  of  death  has  softly  placed  his  arms  around  him 
and  carried  him  home. 

On  Saturday,  the  29th  day  of  October,  1892,  Colonel 
Nathan  H.  Walworth  died  at  his  home,  at  Evanston, 
Illinois.  He  was  born  in  Oneida  County,  New  York,  in 
1832,  and  received  his  education  at  the  Rome  Academy 
and  Cazenovia  Seminary.  In  1855  he  married  Miss 
Adelia  E.  Cornish  of  the  same  county  in  which  he  was 

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MEMORIALS.  133 

born,  and  believing  that  the  great  West  presented  better 
opportunities  for  success,  he  and  his  bride  started  the 
same  year  for  Illinois,  settling  first  in  Fulton  County  and 
subsequently  removing  to  Oneida,  in  Knox  County,  where 
he  engaged  in  mercantile  business.  Though  a  young 
man  and  a  stranger  his  abilities  were  at  once  recognized. 
He  was  chosen  by  the  people  as  Supervisor  of  the  town. 
In  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  the  community 
he  took  a  leading  and  active  part,  faithfully  attending  to 
all  duties  reposed  upon  him. 

Having  a  natural  tendency  toward  military  matters 
and  some  experience  as  a  Captain  of  artillery  of  the 
National  Guards  of  New  York,  and  possessing  to  a  high 
degree  a  love  for  his  country,  he  immediately,  after  the 
firing  of  the  first  gun  at  Fort  Sumter,  commenced  to 
arrange  his  business  matters  so  that,  if  needed,  he  could 
tender  his  services  to  the  country. 

Being  convinced  in  the  early  summer  of  1861  that  it 
was  his  duty  to  go  the  field,  he  commenced  the  organi- 
zation of  a  company  of  infantry,  which  early  in  July  was 
assigned  to  duty  with  the  Forty-second  Illinois  Infantry 
as  Company  C,  with  him  as  its  Captain,  his  commission 
dating  July  22,  1861.  In  December  of  the  .same  year  he 
was  promoted  to  Major;  in  October,  1862,  to  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  and  on  February  15,  1863,  he  was  commissioned 
Colonel.  From  the  time  he  was  promoted  to  Major  until 
May  15,  1864,  when  he  resigned,  he  was  constantly  in 
command  of  his  regiment,  and  in  the  battles  of  Chicka- 
mauga  and  Mission  Ridge  he  commanded  a  brigade  in 
Sheridan's  Division  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland.  His 
services  in  the  field,  briefly  stated,  commenced  in  Sep- 
tember, 1 86 1,  in  Missouri  under  Fremont,  taking  part  in 
the  campaigns  under  Generals  Fremont  and  Hunter.  In 
February,  1862,  he  left  under  orders  of  that  department 


134  MEMORIALS. 

to  reinforce  General  Grant  at  Donelson.  His  regiment, 
meeting  the  prisoners  taken  in  that  battle,  at  Cairo,  was 
thereupon  ordered  down  the  Mississippi  to  Island  No.  10. 
While  the  siege  of  this  island  was  carried  on  and  no 
apparent  progress  was  made,  Major  Walworth  conceived 
the  idea  of  surprising  the  water  battery  located  above 
the  bend  of  the  river  and  commanding  it  for  a  con- 
siderable distance.  His  suggestion  was  carried  out  by 
Colonel  Roberts  in  his  famous  exploit  on  April  ist,  by 
which  the  guns  at  that  battery  were  spiked  and  our  iron- 
clads were  enabled  to  run  the  gauntlet  at  the  island,  cut 
off  the  retreat  of  the  Confederates  towards  the  south 
and  finally  compel  them  to  surrender.  From  here  the 
regiment  went  to  New  Madrid  and  Fort  Pillow  and  was 
then  ordered  up  the  Tennessee  river  to  Hamburg  Land- 
ing, where  it  engaged  in  the  various  movements  around 
Corinth,  and,  when  Bragg  occupied  Kentucky,  made  a 
forced  march  from  the  Tennessee  river  at  Tuscumbia  to 
Nashville,  where  it  took  part  in  the  siege  of  that  city  and 
the  many  skirmishes  incident  thereto.  After  Bragg's  re- 
treat from  Kentucky,  and  the  reorganization  of  the  army, 
the  regiment  became  a  part  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumber- 
land until  the.  ending  of  the  war. 

Colonel  Walworth  was  one  of  the  warm  friends  of 
General  Sheridan,  who,  recognizing  his  keen  perceptions 
and  excellent  military  judgment,  not  only  frequently  en- 
trusted to  him  operations  of  importance,  but  advised 
with  him  as  to  the  feasibility  of  carrying  out  intended 
movements. 

Companion  Walworth's  civil  career  after  the  war  was 
closed  was  all  that  could  be  expected  of  so  brave  and 
good  a  soldier.  His  home  life  was  ideal.  He  was  a 
conscientious,  affectionate  husband  whose  greatest  pleas- 
ure was  to  make  all  who  came  near  him  happy. 


MEMORIALS.  135 

Successful  in  his  worldly  affairs  he  was  one  of  the 
rare  men  who  dispensed  charities  during  his  lifetime, 
giving  without  being  asked  to  the  young  starting  out  in 
business  life  that  they  might  successfully  hew  their  way 
to  prosperity,  while  those  who  came  to  him  for  help  and 
were  worthy  never  left  empty  handed. 

And  with  all  his  success  in  every  avenue  that  had 
opened  itself  to  him  his  modesty  was  predominant,  no 
one  ever  hearing  him  speak  in  boastful  language  of  his 
doings  or  achievements  on  the  field  of  battle. 

To  those  who  knew  him  he  was  a  dear,  devoted 
friend,  and  by  his  death  this  Commandery  loses  a  Com- 
panion whose  place  can  never  be  filled. 

EDGAR  D.  SWAIN, 
ALEXANDER  F.  STEVENSON, 

ZENAS  P.  HANSON, 

Committee. 


JOSEPH  CLAPP. 

Captain  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry,  United  States  Volunteers 
Died  at  Bolton,  Massachusetts,  November  20, 


IN    MEMORY   of    Companion  Captain  Joseph  Clapp: 
Born  in  Boston,    Massachusetts,    August    28,    1839; 
died  in  Bolton,  Massachusetts,  November  20,   1892. 
Between  these  dates  our  Companion   lived  and   loved, 
struggled  and  sorrowed,  hoped  and  triumphed.     Born  in 
the  City  of  Patriots  and  reared  amid  the  hallowed  scenes 
of  the  Revolution,  he  was  inspired  with  an  intense  love 
of  liberty  and  country.      When  liberty  was  confronted 
by  slavery  and  his  country  stood  face  to  face  with  rebel- 
lion, he  armed  in  their  defense. 

He  enlisted  September  6,  1861,  in  Company  F,  Eighth 
Illinois  Cavalry,  and  followed  the  varied  fortunes  of  his 

136 


MEMORIALS.  137 

regiment  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  until  its  muster 
out,  July  17,  1865.  The  regimental  record  is  the  best 
evidence  of  his  service,  his  sacrifice  and  the  esteem  of 
his  companions  in  arms. 

September  18,  1861,  he  was  mustered  and  appointed 
First  Corporal. 

May  30, 1 863,  he  was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant. 

March  I,  1864,  he  was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant. 

January  6,    1865,  he   was  commissioned   Captain   of 

Company  F,  and  commanded  his  company  until  its  final 

muster  out. 

He  returned  to  civil  life  with  the  steady  purpose  and 
unflinching  courage  that  marked  his  military  career.  In- 
flexible in  will,  his  conscience  was  open  to  truth.  Stern 
in  purpose,  his  moral  being  was  softened  by  gentleness. 
Rugged  by  nature,  his  heart  warmed  with  love. 

As  a  man,  citizen,  son,  brother,  husband  and  father, 
he  was  faithful  and  true  to  every  trust  and  every  relation 
in  life.  For  years  he  fought  patiently,  uncomplainingly, 
manfully  against  disease.  He  sought  rest  and  health  in 
a  warmer  clime,  but  yielding  to  the  inevitable,  returned 
to  his  native  state  to  die. 

Deeply  sympathizing  with  his  family  and  friends,  with 
them  his  Companions  deplore  his  loss,  and  will  emulate 
his  virtues. 

He  is  tenting  to-night  on  a  far-away  field.  He  is 
sleeping  his  last  sleep,  and  God's  voice  only  can  awaken 
him  to  glory.  In  death's  solemn  presence  and  eternal 
stillness,  let  us  softly  whisper — 

"Companion,  farewell." 

HENRY  A.  PEARSONS, 
JOHN  L.  BEVERIDGE, 
FRANK  CLENDENIN, 

Committee. 


FRANK  HARWOOD  WHITE. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster,  Fourteenth  Michigan  Infantry, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Montague, 

Michigan,  January  10,  1893. 

CENTERED  the  service  as  Quartermaster  Sergeant, 
Fourteenth  Michigan  Infantry,  U.  S.  V.,  February 
^*-*  5,  1862;  Second  Lieutenant,  December  i,  1862; 
First  Lieutenant  and  Regimental  Quartermaster,  De- 
cember i,  1862.  Mustered  out,  March  14,  1865.  War 
service  with  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland. 


138 


WILLIAM  GALE   MEAD. 

first   Lieutenant    Seventy-second   Illinois   Infantry,    United    States 
Volunteers.      Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  January  ij, 


ON  January  13,  1893,  the  Illinois  Comrnandery  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  was,  by  the 
hand  of  death,  deprived  of  one  of  its  most  cherished 
Companions.  First  Lieutenant  William  Gale  Mead 
entered  the  military  service  of  the  United  States  as 
Sergeant  of  Company  D,  Seventy-  second  Regiment 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  July  25,  1862.  He  was 
commissioned  Second  Lieutenant,  January  16,  1863; 
First  Lieutenant,  September  27,  1864,  and  mustered  out 
of  service  with  that  rank  on  August  7,  1865.  The  last 
eight  months  of  his  military  career  were  passed  in  acting 
as  Assistant  Adjutant  General  on  the  staff  of  Major 

139 


I4O  MEMORIALS. 

General  A.  J.  Smith,   commanding  the  Sixteenth  Army 
Corps. 

During  the  period  of  service  with  his  regiment  and  in 
his  staff  position,  he  nobly  did  his  full  duty  as  an  earnest 
and  patriotic  soldier,  and  merited  the  approbation  of  his 
superiors  in  office. 

The  records  of  this  Commandery  show  that  he  par- 
ticipated in  General  Grant's  first  and  second  attempt  to 
capture  Vicksburg;  was  in  Ransom's  Brigade,  McArthur's 
Division  of  the  Seventeenth  Army  Corps  at  Champion's 
Hill,  and  at  the  assault  upon  Vicksburg,  where  he  re- 
ceived a  gunshot  wound  in  the  head;  was  at  the  battle  of 
Nashville  in  December,  1864,  with  the  Sixteenth  Army 
Corps;  was  at  the  siege  of  Mobile  and  the  attack  upon 
Spanish  Fort,  in  April,  1865,  and  in  various  other  en- 
gagements of  lesser  note. 

Since  the  war  he  has  lived  among  us,  quietly  and 
unostentatiously,  as  becomes  a  hero. 

The  record, of  his  life  is  a  page  of  history. 

We  write  his  epitaph  in  letters  of  gold:  A  brave 
soldier,  a  worthy  citizen,  a  Christian  gentleman. 

JOSEPH  STOCKTON, 
GEORGE  H.   HEAFFORD, 
JAMES    A.   SEXTON, 

Committee. 


ARTHUR  TANNATT  WOODS. 

Died  at    Chicago,    Illinois:,    February   7, 

'TKRTHUR  TANNATT  WOODS,  eldest  son  of  Captain 
f\  and  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel  George  Henry 
^~*  Woods,  who  died  September  30,  1884,  at  Decatur, 
Illinois,  was  born  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  January  9, 
1859.  He  lived  with  his  parents  in  Minneapolis,  Minne- 
sota, Omaha,  Nebraska,  and  Salem,  Massachusetts,  until 
he  entered  the  Naval  Academy  in  September,  1876. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  Naval  Academy,  as  Cadet 
Engineer  in  June,  1880,  and  for  three  years  served  at  sea 
on  the  ships  Mayflower,  Dispatch,  Galena,  Quinneborg, 
Nipsic,  Lancaster  and  Trenton,  and  was  promoted  to 
Assistant  Engineer  from  June  10,  1882.  Till  the  fall  of 
1883,  he  served  in  the  Bureau  of  Steam  Engineering  of 

141 


142  MEMORIALS. 

the  Navy  Department  at  Washington,  District  of  Co- 
lumbia, when  he  was  detailed  to  the  University  of  Illinois 
at  Champaign,  for  duty  in  the  Mechanical  Engineering 
Department.  Here  he  served  as  Assistant  Professor  of 
Mechanical  Engineering  till  June,  1887,  when,  being 
offered  the  Professorship  of  his  Department,  on  July  11, 
1887,  he  resigned  from  the  Navy. 

He  remained  at  the  University  of  Illinois  until 
September  I,  1891,  when  he  resigned  his  position  to  ac- 
cept the  Chair  of  Dynamic  Engineering  at  Washington 
University,  St.  Louis.  On  September  i,  1892,  he  re- 
signed his  position  in  the  Washington  University  to  be- 
come Associate  Editor  of  the  Railroad  Gazette  at  Chicago, 
which  position  he  occupied  at  the  time  of  his  death  in 
Chicago,  February  7,  1893. 

In  June,  1890,  Mr.  Woods  received  the  degree  of 
Master  of  Mechanical  Engineering  from  Cornell  Uni- 
versity. He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of 
Mechanical  Engineers,  a  member  of  the  American  Society 
of  Naval  Engineers  from  the  time  of  its  organization, 
and  was  an  associate  member  of  the  Railway  Master 
Mechanics  Association.  He  was  the  author  of  a  text- 
book on  mechanism,  a  book  on  compound  locomotives 
and  of  various  papers  and  articles  on  mechanical  engi- 
neering in  the  magazines  devoted  to  that  subject.  In 
addition  to  his  editorial  duties,  he  acted  as  consulting 
mechanical  engineer  in  Chicago. 

On  September  2,  1884,  Mr.  Woods  married  Harriet 
Scott  de  Krafft,  daughter  of  Rear  Admiral  J.  C.  P.  de 
Krafft,  U.  S.  N.,  who  survives  him.  He  left  no  children, 
and  his  only  brother,  W.  H.  P.  Woods,  now  a  student 
in  the  Boston  University,  resides  at  Salem,  Massachusetts. 

February  6,  1892,  Mr.  Woods  was  admitted  through 
the  Commandery  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  to  the  Military 


MEMORIALS.  143 

Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States  as  a 
member  of  the  First  Class  by  inheritance,  and  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Commandery  of  the  State  of  Illinois  on 
November  21,  1892. 

Though  connected  with  the  Illinois  Commandery  but 
a  short  time,  Mr.  Woods  won  the  respect  of  the  Com- 
panions with  whom  he  was  brought  into  contact,  by  his 
gentlemanly  bearing  and  genial  qualities,  and  it  was  with 
sincere  regret  that  they  learned  of  his  sudden  death.  To 
his  widow  and  family  they  extend  their  profound  sympathy. 

WILLIAM  D.   FULLERTON, 
JOHN  R.   MONTGOMERY, 
HERBERT  A.   GODDARD, 

Committee. 


EDWARDS  CORSE. 

Died  at   Chicago,   Illinois,   June  4, 

I  HOSE  of  you  who  have  stood  in  the  front  of  battle 
V.  as  the  reaper  has  laid  his  heavy  hand  upon  the 
brow  of  comrade  and  friend,  those  who  have  stood  by 
the  lonely  grave  in  the  far  Southland  are  no  strangers  to 
the  sympathy  which  dwells  within  the  camps  of  War  and 
the  breasts  of  brave  men. 

Your  hearts  have  been  touched,  as  again  and  again 
within  this  room  you  have  listened  as  a  comrade  has 
told  the  simple  story  of  a  life  that  was  ended,  but  linked 
in  memory  with  your  own  and  forever  with  deeds  im- 
mortal as  shall  be  the  history  of  your  country. 

As  one  by  one  the  faces  vanish  from  the  camp  fire, 
there  comes  a  realization  of  the  march  of  time  and  the 

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MEMORIALS.  145 

approach  of  that  hour  when  beside  the  narrow  home  the 
trumpet  shall  sound  "taps"  and  they  who  listen  shall 
know  that  the  last  light  has  gone  out. 

Yet  more  ruthless  seems  the  remorseless  one  when 
he  reaches  forth  his  hand  and  smites  low  him  whose  feet 
still  tread  the  paths  of  youth  and  whose  eye,  fixed  on  the 
future,  is  still  bright  with  hope. 

For  a  second  time  within  the  year  death  has  removed 
from  our  midst  one  of  the  most  promising  of  the  younger 
members  of  this  Commandery. 

Mr.  Edwards  Corse  who,  after  an  illness  of  three 
months,  died  in  this  city  on  the  fourth  day  of  June,  1893, 
was  born  June  5,  1860,  in  the  city  of  Burlington,  Iowa. 

As  a  child  he  visited,  with  his  mother,  the  head- 
quarters of  his  father  in  the  field,  and  as  a  youth  traveled 
extensively  through  Europe,  Asia,  the  Islands  of  the  Sea 
and  his  native  land.  Receiving  his  education  at  Harvard 
University,  he  engaged  in  business  with  his  father,  the  late 
Major  General  John  M.  Corse,  since  whose  retirement  he 
has  been  identified  with  business  interests  in  this  city. 

Eleven  years  ago  the  deceased  married  the  daughter 
of  Mr.  Redmond  Prindiville.  His  widow  and  three 
children  survive  him.  It  was  his  earnest  desire  that  his 
only  son  might  some  day  inherit  his  membership  in  this 
Order,  to  which  Mr.  Corse  was  himself  elected  April  6, 
1 88 1,  becoming  a  Companion  of  the  First  Class  on  the 
death  of  his  father,  April  27,  1893. 

Of  uniform  gentleness  of  character,  modest  demeanor, 
and  earnest  loyalty,  he  was  proud  of  the  achievements 
of  his  gallant  father.  Endeared  to  those  who  knew  him 
by  his  many  qualities  of  mind  and  heart,  we  sincerely 
mourn  his  loss.  LEROY  T.  STEWARD, 

HUGH  R.    BELKNAP, 
HENRY   S.    BOUTELL, 

Committee. 


CALEB  SOUTHARD  BURDSAL, 

Second  Lieutenant  Independent  Battery,  Colorado  Artillery,   United 

States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Phoenix,  Arizona, 

August  20,  /<?<?_?. 

etfPANION  Caleb  S.  Burdsal  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  where  he  passed  his  early  days.  He  moved 
to  Chicago  with  his  parents  in  1856.  On  the  first  call 
for  troops  he  enlisted  on  April  21,  1861,  as  a  private  in 
Battery  A,  First  Illinois  Artillery,  and  served  with  that 
command  until  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  service,  when 
he  was  mustered  out  August  15,  1861. 

After  remaining  some  time  in  Chicago,  he  went  to 
Colorado,  but  he  could  not  refrain  from  doing  his  share 
of  patriotic  duty,  so  he  again  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
Independent  Battery  of  Colorado,  and  after  passing  the 
various  non-commissioned  grades,  he  was  mustered  in  as 

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MEMORIALS.  147 

Second  Lieutenant  of  his  battery.  He  served  on  gen- 
eral frontier  duty  in  the  Departments  of  Kansas  and 
Missouri,  and  was  mustered  out  of  service  August  31, 
1865.  He  then  returned  to  Chicago  and  at  once  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Ludington  Wells  and  Van  Schaick 
Company,  one  of  the  largest  lumber  concerns  in  the 
West,  where  he  remained  until  the  time  of  his  death 
(August  20,  1893),  a  period  of  over  twenty-six  years. 
The  same  faithfulness  to  duty  that  distinguished  his 
military  history  also  earned  him  promotion  in  civil  life. 
For  thirteen  years  he  was  Secretary  of  this  company,  a 
position  of  great  responsibility. 

Lieutenant  Burdsal  was  admitted  to  membership  in 
the  Order  through  this  Commandery  at  the  meeting  in 
June,  1883.  The  memory  of  his  military  history  and 
companionship  was  one  that  he  greatly  enjoyed  and 
warmly  cherished. 

Such,  in  brief,  is  the  history  of  our  late  associate. 
From  his  life  of  sterling  worth  we  can  learn  a  lesson  of 
true  manhood.  He  was  of  an  affectionate  and  affable 
nature,  was  warm  and  true  in  his  friendships.  As  a  citi- 
zen, husband  and  father  he  was  faithful  in  the  discharge 
of  every  duty.  For  years  he  fought  patiently,  uncom- 
plainingly and  manfully  against  an  insidious  and  debili- 
tating disease — always  hopeful  and  trustful — and  after 
seeking  health  in  Arizona,  without  receiving  any  benefit 
therefrom,  away  from  home  and  friends  when  the  last 
call  came,  he  was  ready  to  obey. 

Deeply  sympathizing  with  his  family  and  friends,  we 
with  them  deplore  his  loss  and  shall  ever  hold  his 
memory  in  affectionate  respect  and  esteem. 

JOHN  MCLAREN, 
HOLMES  HOGE, 
HENRY  A.  PEARSONS, 

Committee. 


JAMES  IRVIN  NEFF. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  One  Hundred  and  First    Ohio    hi' 
fantry,  United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago, 
Illinois,  September  14, 


I  OMPANION  James  Irvin  Neff  was  born  in  Center 
V^  County,  Pennsylvania,  October  5,  1839,  and  his 
boyhood  years  were  spent  upon  his  father's  farm  in  that 
County,,  until  at  the  proper  age  he  entered  Dickinson 
Seminary  in  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania,  from  which  in- 
stitution he  graduated  in  1861. 

In  January  of  the  following  year  he  began  the  study 
of  law  under  Colonel  Leander  Stem,  at  Tiffin,  Ohio,  and 
there  continued  as  a  student  until  the  formation  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  First  Ohio  Infantry,  when  he  enlisted 
in  Company  H  of  that  regiment.  In  the  organization  of 
that  battalion,  young  Neff  was  elected  and  commissioned 

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MEMORIALS.  149 

Second  Lieutenant.  His  regiment  was  assigned  to  the 
Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  from  the  early  summer  of 
1862  until  the  month  of  June,  1865,  he  remained  con- 
stantly in  active  service  with  his  regiment.  Soon  after 
he  had  entered  upon  his  active  military  duties  he  was 
promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  and  then  to  Adjutant  of 
his  regiment,  in  which  capacity. he  displayed  unusual 
military  tact  and  administrative  ability. 

The  history  of  the  One  Hundred  and  First  Ohio  was 
one  of  conspicuous  gallantry,  and  along  with  that  regi- 
ment Companion  Neff  rendered  his  country  distinguished 
and  heroic  services  at  the  battles  of  Stone's  River, 
Chickamauga,  Mission  Ridge,  Resaca,  in  the  memorable 
campaign  to  Atlanta,  and  subsequently  participated  gal- 
lantly in  the  battles  of  Franklin  and  Nashville  under  the 
command  of  that  distinguished  and  heroic  military  chief- 
tain, General  George  H.  Thomas.  In  all  of  his  military 
career  and  in  the  discharge  of  every  military  duty,  Com- 
panion Neff  displayed  in  the  most  commendable  degree 
those  rare  qualities  of  quiet  but  intense  earnestness,  un- 
yielding firmness,  unflinching  courage  and  unwavering  de- 
votion to  duty  under  all  circumstances  and  in  every  station . 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  in 
1867,  and  soon  after  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Free- 
port,  Illinois,  where  first  in  association  with  the  late 
Colonel  Thomas  J.  Turner,  then  with  Judge  Joseph  M. 
Bailey,  and  later  with  James  H.  Stearns,  he  pursued  his 
profession  successfully  until  his  death.  Companion  Neff 
was  a  lawyer  of  ability  and  a  wise  and  valued  counselor. 
His  clientage  was  large,  and  included  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  and  many  other  large  corporations,  and  active 
men  of  business  who  intrusted  large  interests  to  him;  in 
the  discharge  of  his  professional  duties,  he  was  conspicu- 
ous for  his  fidelity,  discretion  and  sound  judgment. 


I5O  MEMORIALS. 

From  1878  to  1881  he  was  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  this  State,  and  was  distinguished  as  a  legis- 
lator for  his  prudence,  far-sighted  wisdom  and  intelligent 
patriotism.  From  1884  until  1892  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Equalization — a  position  of 
great  trust,  in  which  he  rendered  the  people  of  his.  State 
the  invaluable  service  of  a  faithful,  courageous  and  wise 
public  officer. 

Among  the  survivors  of  the  war  for  the  preservation 
of  the  Union,  Companion  Neff  was  deservedly  popular 
and  always  welcome  to  the  circles  of  the  Grand  Army 
and  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion;  at  one 
time  he  was  the  Commander  of  the  John  A.  Davis  Post 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  at  Freeport. 

In  1889  our  deceased  Companion  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Fifer  as  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Soldiers' 
and  Sailors'  Home  at  Quincy.  In  this  position  Com- 
panion Neff  became  doubly  endeared  to  that  torn  and 
feeble  remnant  of  the  veterans  of  1865,  whom  the  terri- 
ble vicissitudes  of  war  had  rendered  both  helpless  and 
homeless.  In  these  weary  and  suffering  heroes  our  late 
Companion  recognized  not  only  those  who  had  borne 
with  him  the  brunt  of  battle,  but  a  deserving  class  to 
whom  was  due  the  special  bounty  of  our  people  and  the 
fullest  measure  of  patriotic  sympathy  and  manly  tender- 
ness. 

Companion  Neff  was  married  to  Miss  Catherine  Row- 
ell,  of  Freeport,  on  January  29,  1879,  who,  together  with 
two  children,  Ftorence  and  Willie,  survive  him. 

Verily,  our  dead  are  not  far  from  us,  for  betwixt  life 
and  death  there  is  but  a  single  breath. 

Companion  Neff  died  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital  in  this 
city,  on  the  morning  of  September  14,  1893,  at  the  age 
of  54  years.  Thus  do  the  brave  men,  whose  united  pur- 


MEMORIALS.  151 

pose  and  splendid  service  achieved  for  the  Republic  of 
our  patriotic  affection  a  triumph  whose  grandeur  and 
lasting  benefits  are  seldom  fully  comprehended,  and 
which  never  have  been  equaled  in  military  events,  pass 
from  the  view  of  living  eyes  and  from  the  touch  of  loyal 
hands,  across  the  mystic  threshold,  into  that  Paradise 
where  the  "wicked  cease  from  troubling  and  the  weary 
are  at  rest." 

We  do  not  even  pause  in  our  course,  but  looking  ever 
forward  leave  this  tribute  of  respectful  affection  to  the 
memory  of  our  fallen  Companion. 

FRANCIS  A.   RIDDLE, 
EDWARD  A.   BLODGETT, 
SMITH  D.    ATKINS. 

Committee. 


PHINEAS  PEASE. 

Colonel  Forty-ninth  Illinois  Infantry  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Columbus,  Ohio, 

October  8,  1893. 

O  REVET  Brigadier  General  Phineas  Pease,  a  Com- 

0  1     panion  of  this  Commandery,   died  at  Columbus, 

Ohio,  October  8,   1893.      His  death  was  indirectly 

caused  by  a  gunshot  wound  received  at    the    battle  of 

Shiloh. 

General  Pease  entered  the  service  of  the  United 
States  as  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Forty-ninth  Illinois 
Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers,  December  31,  1861. 
He  was  promoted  to  be  Colonel  of  the  same  regiment 
January  17,  1863,  and  was  brevetted  Brigadier  General 
at  the  close  of  the  war,  for  gallant  and  meritorious  serv- 
ices; was  honorably  discharged  from  the  service  of  the 

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MEMORIALS.  153 

United  States,  January  9,  1865.  He  took  part  with  his 
regiment  in  the  battles  of  Donelson  and  Shiloh;  the 
advance  on  Corinth,  Little  Rock,  Yellow  Bayou,  Bayou 
Deglaize,  Chicot  Lake,  Franklin,  Missouri,  and  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee. 

The  Colonel  of  the  Forty-ninth  being  severely 
wounded  at  Donelson,  General  Pease,  as  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  commanded  his  regiment  most  of  the  time  that 
ensued  until  he  succeeded  to  the  rank  of  Colonel. 

After  the  war  he  was  actively  engaged  in  railroad  and 
bridge  construction,  and  was  for  several  years  a  resident 
of  Chicago.  While  here  he  made  many  warm  friends 
both  in  the  Loyal  Legion  and  out  of  it.  He  was  a  man 
of  generous  impulses  and  warm  friendships,  a  typical 
soldier  of  the  war,  loyal,  patriotic  and  unselfish.  In 
business  he  was  honest  and  energetic. 

It  is  fitting  that  this  Commandery  should  drop  a  tear 
to  the  memory  of  the  brave  men  that  so  rapidly  and  so 
steadily  are  being  borne  away  from  us;  each  succeeding 
roll-call  finds  fewer  responses.  In  a  little  while  we  shall 
have  all  answered  to  our  names  for  the  last  time.  Let 
us  hope  that  a  kind  Providence  will  deal  gently  in  the 
future  with  the  brave  men  who  suffered  so  much  for  con- 
stitutional liberty  upon  this  earth. 

CHARLES    FITZSIMONS, 
JOHN  L.   BEVERIDGE, 
AUGUSTUS   L.   CHETLAIN, 

Committee. 


DON  CARLOS  NEWTON. 

Captain    Fifty-second  Illinois   Infantry,    United  States    Volunteers. 
Died  at   Batavia,   Illinois,    October  8,   i8gj. 

*"TT.GAIN  our  hearts  are  saddened  by  the  removal  of  the 
g\  name  of  another  Companion  from  the  muster  roll 
^**  of  our  Commandery.  Once  again  the  usual  routine 
of  our  business  is  arrested  while  we  unite  in  a  heartfelt 
testimonial  to  one  whose  memory  we  gratefully  cherish, 
but  whose  presence  will  be  with  us  no  more. 

The  death  of  Captain  Don  Carlos  Newton  occurred 
on  the  8th  of  October,  1893.  In  the  early  dawn  of  that 
beautiful  autumnal  day,  he  heard  what  even  the  friends 
who  ministered  at  his  bedside  did  not  then  hear,  ' '  The 
voice  of  the  Archangel  and  the  trump  of  God,  calling 
him  to  ascend  with  his  Master  to  the  resurrection  of 


MEMORIALS.  155 

eternal  life,"  and  summoning  him  to  a  perpetual  com- 
panionship with  those  heroes  and  patriots  whom  the 
great  Captain  from  time  to  time  has  taken  from  our 
ranks  and  assigned  to  service  in  His  immediate  presence. 
In  the  spirit  of  true  soldierly  obedience  he  laid  down  the 
weapons  of  warfare  which  he  had  hitherto  so  faithfully 
waged,  and  with  the  kiss  of  wifely  devotion  still  fresh 
upon  his  lips,  he  left  his  earthly  home  for  his  heavenly 
inheritance. 

All  of  our  recollections  of  Captain  Newton  recall  him 
to  our  memories  as  a  Prince  among  good  men.  Bright 
and  cheery  of  disposition,  companionable,  generous, 
manly,  brave.  He  was  quick  to  perceive  what  was  noble 
and  praiseworthy  in  others  and  his  judgments  were  as 
generous  as  were  his  sympathies  or  his  benefactions.  An 
intrepid  but  magnanimous  soldier,  a  loyal  and  patriotic 
citizen,  a  devoted  and  faithful  friend,  he  stood  for  all 
that  is  worthiest  and  best  among  men. 

Captain  Newton  was  a  native  of  Alexander,  New 
York,  and  received  his  education  at  Alleghany  College, 
Pennsylvania.  In  1854  he  removed  to  Batavia,  Illinois, 
where  he  established  and  developed  a  magnificent  busi- 
ness which  yielded  him  a  large  and  well  earned  pecuniary 
reward. 

In  1 86 1  he  helped  to  recruit  the  Fifty-second  Regi- 
ment of  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  with  that 
Regiment  for  three  years,  participating  in  twenty-three 
battles  and  closing  his  military  experience  when  the 
capture  of  Savannah  crowned  Sherman's  memorable 
"  March  to  the  Sea." 

As  at  the  beginning  of  the  war  he  had  left  business, 
home  and  an  invalid  but  patriotic  wife  in  order  that  he 
might  discharge  to  the  uttermost  his  duty  to  the  State, 
so  when  the  success  of  the  Union  cause  was  assured  he 


I  56  MEMORIALS. 

returned  to  the  scene  of  his  former  activities,  taking  up 
again  the  work  which  had  been  temporarily  interrupted 
and  was  thenceforth  not  less  the  ideal  citizen  than  dur- 
ing his  military  life  he  had  been  the  knightly  soldier. 

He  served  God  as  he  had  served  his  Country,  not  so 
much  in  speech  as  in  deed — not  in  profession  but  in  un- 
flinching integrity  and  unswerving  loyalty  to  truth  and 
righteousness.  He  worshipped  his  Master  in  his  cheer- 
ful recognition  of  every  obligation  which  as  neighbor, 
citizen  or  friend  was  devolved  upon  him.  He  followed 
his  Saviour  in  his  daily  example  of  upright  dealing  and 
manly  helpfulness,  and  he  honored  his  Heavenly  Father 
by  the  beauty  of  his  filial  piety  and  the  purity  and 
tenderness  of  his  conjugal  affection. 

Gradually  but  surely  the  circle  composed  of  the  active 
participants  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  is  contracting. 
As  one  after  another  drops  out  of  the  line  and  the  sur- 
vivors come  together  to  offer  their  tributes  to  the  virtues 
and  the  memory  of  the  fallen,  they  are  again  and  again 
reminded  that  the  hour  approaches  when  at  roll-call  no 
comrade  will  be  present  to  respond. 

We  extend  our  earnest  and  heartfelt  sympathy  to 
those  who  suffer  most  keenly  from  this  affliction.  Help- 
less ourselves  to  afford  them  comfort,  we  commend  them 
to  God  and  to  the  power  of  His  grace  in  the  full  assur- 
ance that  He  will  minister  to  them  an  abundant  con- 
solation. 

FRANK   P.   CRANDON, 
JOHN  S.   WILCOX, 
EDGAR  D.   SWAIN, 

Committee. 


HENRY  DE  WOLF. 

Sergeant  One  Hundred  and  Thirly-fourtk  Illinois  Infantry,  United 
States  Volunteers.      Died  at  Chicago,  October-  10,  1893. 

e^IPANION  Henry  De  Wolf  was  born  at  Alton,  Illi- 
nois, October  3,  1844,  and  in  1846  his  father  re- 
moved his  family  to  Chicago.  At  an  early  age  he  entered 
the  Ogden  School,  passed  through  its  course  and  that  of 
the  Chicago  High  School,  at  that  time  the  best  educa- 
tional institution  in  the  city. 

In  1 86 1  he  entered  his  life-long  service  with  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad  Company,  commencing  as  junior 
clerk  and  passing  through  various  grades  to  the  position 
of  treasurer,  which  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His 
advancement  was  gradual,  each  promotion  being  made  in 
recognition  of  the  faithful  and  thorough  manner  in  which 

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158  MEMORIALS. 

he  performed  the  duties  entrusted  to  him,  of  his  wise 
and  prudent  management,  sterling  integrity  and  unfail- 
ing courtesy. 

June  2,  1862,  his  eldest  brother,  Lieutenant  William 
De  Wolf,  Third  United  States  Artillery  (through  whom 
he  became  eligible  to  membership  in  the  Loyal  Legion), 
died  from  wounds  received  at  the  battle  of  Williamsburg, 
Virginia.  Even  before  this  time,  Henry  had  wished  to 
enter  his  country's  service,  and  his  brother's  death  seemed 
to  intensify  this  desire,  which  arose,  not  from  any  feel- 
ings of  revenge,  but  from  the  strong  sense  of  duty  which 
characterized  his  entire  life.  Out  of  deference  to  the 
wishes  of  his  parents,  he  remained  at  home  until  the  call 
for  troops  in  1864,  when,  on  the  I3th  day  of  May,  he 
enlisted  in  Company  D,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-fourth 
Illinois  Infantry  Volunteers,  being  mustered  in  on  the 
3ist  day  of  that  month,  as  Sergeant.  June  3,  1864,  the 
regiment  left  Camp  Fry  for  Columbus,  Kentucky,  where 
it  remained  on  garrison  duty  for  some  time,  moving  to 
Mayfield,  Kentucky,  in  August,  and  afterwards  partici- 
pating in  the  pursuit  of  the  Confederate  troops  under 
General  Price  in  Missouri.  October  25,  1864,  the  regi- 
ment was  mustered  out,  nearly  two  months  after  its  term 
of  service  had  expired. 

On  the  8th  day  of  January,  1 89 1 ,  he  was  unanimously 
elected  a  Companion  of  the  First  Class  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States,  through 
the  Commandery  of  the  State  of  Illinois. 

October  10,  1893,  he  died,  like  a  soldier  at  his  post 
of  duty,  being  stricken  down  with  heart  disease  at  his 
office  in  Chicago.  Death  came  to  him  without  warning, 
but  found  him  ready  for  the  summons.  His  purity  of 
character  and  sweetness  of  disposition  endeared  him  to 
all  his  friends,  and  it  is  wkh  a  deep  sense  of  personal 


MEMORIALS.  159 

loss  that  we  tender  to  his  family  the  sympathies  of  this 

Commandery. 

ROSWELL  H.   MASON, 

ALEXANDER  C.   MCCLURG, 
CLARENCE   H.   DYER, 

Committee, 


CHARLES  WARRINGTON  EARLE. 

First  Lieutenant  Ninety-sixth  Illinois  Infantry  atid  Brevet  Ca-ptain, 

United  States   Volunteers.     Died  at   Chicago, 

Illinois,  Noi'ember  iq,  1893. 


HARLES  WARRINGTON  EARLE,  a  native  of  Ver 
mont,  having  come  with  his  father  to  this  State, 
enlisted  ere  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  in  an  Illinois 
regiment.  From  May  until  September,  1861,  he  served 
as  a  private,  most  of  the  time  in  what  is  known  as  Fre- 
mont's Missouri  Campaign.  At  the  date  last  named,  a 
sallow  stripling,  weak  and  wasted,  he  was  discharged 
for  disability. 

Returning  to  his  father's  home,  the  invigorating  air 
that  blew  o'er  the  hills  of  Lake  County  expelled  the 
poison  with  which  his  system  had  been  rilled  in  the 

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swamps  of  Missouri,  and  August  11,  1862,  he  again  en- 
listed as  a  private,  this  time  in  what  afterward  became 
the  Ninety-sixth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  Because  of 
his  intelligence  and  experience,  he  was  made  First  Ser- 
geant of  Company  C  of  that  regiment,  and  thereafter 
rose  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant,  in  which  capacity  he 
commanded  his  company  at  the  battle  of  Chickamauga. 

His  was  a  part  of  Granger's  command  that  on  the 
third  day  came  up  in  time  to  hurl  back  the  triumphing 
foe  —  to  save  the  day  and  the  army.  Three  times  wound- 
ed on  that  memorable  field,  he  remained  with  his  com- 
pany, and  with  it,  owing  to  a  mistake  of  a  staff  officer, 
he  was  captured  after  the  Union  forces  abandoned  Mis- 
sionary Ridge. 

A  prisoner  in  Libby,  the  hope  of  escape  was  ever 
present  with  him.  Into  a  hole,  back  of  a  stove,  in  a 
chimney,  thence  down  to  a  cellar,  whence  a  tunnel,  pre- 
pared by  stout  hearts  and  eager  hands,  led  through  the 
foundations  of  a  three-story  brick  building,  beneath  the 
pavement,  alongside  of  foul  and  noisome  sewers,  ran  the 
way  through  which  he  and  one  hundred  and  eighteen 
others  crawled  to  the  open  air. 

Dodging  sentinels,  mingling  with  rebel  citizens  and 
soldiers,  cautiously  and  stealthily  he  made  his  way  to  the 
fortifications  that  surrounded  Richmond,  and  over  these 
on  hands  and  knees  in  silence  and  darkness,  groped  his 
way;  thence  on,  till  as  daylight  appeared,  he  sought  the 
friendly  shelter  of  a  half  frozen  morass,  and  in  its  chill 
and  damp  embrace  laid  down  to  wait  for  the  coming  of 
night.  Thus,  from  morn  to  night  and  night  to  morn  for 
six  days,  guided  by  the  stars,  he  wended  his  way.  Twice 
he  crept  in  the  darkness  to  negro  quarters,  the  habitation 
of  a  slave,  to  homes  of  the  yet  despised  and  downtrod- 
den, and  twice  in  such  humble  abodes  he  was  warmed 


1 62  MEMORIALS. 

and  fed  with  all  his  hosts  had,  while  a  cordon  of  dusky 
sentinels  ranged  without  to  give  warning  of  the  approach 
of  whites.  At  last,  when  hunger  and  cold,  the  chill  and 
ooze  in  which  they  lay,  and  the  fatigue  of  the  wearisome 
way  had  unsettled  the  mind  of  his  one  companion,  he 
reached  an  outpost  of  the  Union  army. 

And  for  what  did  this  slender  boy,  not  yet  a  voter,  do 
this  ?  Only  that  he  might  once  more  stand  before  his 
country's  foe,  again  interpose  his  body  between  the 
armed  hosts  of  rebellion  and  the  nation's  life.  It  cannot 
be  amiss  in  these  days  if  now  and  then,  at  least  in  this 
presence,  the  disinterested  patriotism  of  such  as  was  our 
dead  comrade  is  recalled. 

Thirty  days  leave  of  absence  was  given  him,  thirty 
days  to  look  at  the  old  farm,  to  see  and  embrace  family 
and  friends,  to  tell  to  listening  neighbors  the  romantic 
story  of  his  escape,  to  shake  off  and  out  the  foul  exhala- 
tions of  prison  and  marsh,  travel  two  thousand  miles  and 
rejoin  his  regiment.  The  month  gone,  and  he  is  again 
where  danger  is  most  imminent  and  foemen  most  fre- 
quent. 

Participating  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Atlanta  cam- 
paign; present  at  Franklin  and  Nashville;  serving  as 
Aide-de-Camp,  brevetted  Captain  for  gallant  and  meri- 
torious service  at  Chickamauga,  Resaca,  Atlanta,  Frank- 
lin and  Nashville;  at  the  close  of  the  war  he  resumed 
the  studies  he  had  left,  took  up  pursuits  always  kept  in 
mind,  and  so  came  to  be  the  able,  learned,  conscientious, 
faithful  physician  and  surgeon  he  was  for  many  years. 

As  husband  and  father,  as  neighbor  and  citizen,  as 
instructor  and  friend,  as  physician  and  companion,  as 
soldier  and  man,  he  was  without  fear  and  without  re- 
proach. No  one  who  knew  Charles  Warrington  Earle 
as  we  knew  him,  can  ever  lose  faith  in  humanity.  No 


MEMORIALS.  163 

one  who  saw  him  in  the  shock  of  battle  can  ever  want 
for  an  example  of  manly  courage.      No  one  who  entered 
into  the  recesses  of  his  heart  and  felt  the  touch  of  his 
strong  hand,  can  fail  to  know  what  friendship  is. 
Dear  Friend — 

Whatever  chaplet  Honor  wears, 

Whatever  rank  can  Valor  claim, 

Whatever  guerdon  Truth  doth  hold, 
Is  thine: 

And  thou  art  ours. 

• 

AREA  N.  WATERMAN, 
WILLIAM  E.  CLARKE, 
DANIEL  R.  BROWER, 

Committee. 


JAMES  GUSHING  WHITE. 

Captain  Second  Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery,  United  States  Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Marion,  Indiana,  November  22,  1893. 

i  APTAIN  James  Gushing  White  !  Two  circumstances 
\  immediately  warm  the  hearts  of  our  Order  towards 
Captain  White — one,  that  his  Insignia  has  the 
early  number,  822,  and  the  other  that  he  served  his 
country  with  two  regiments,  both  of  which  retained  his 
services  until  they,  in  turn,  were  mustered  out.  Our 
comrade,  who  died  November  22,  1893,  first  entered  the 
volunteer  service  for  nine  months,  September  12,  1862, 
as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Forty-fourth  Massachusetts  In- 
fantry, and  closed  that  term  with  the  regiment  at  its 
muster-out,  June  18,  1863.  He  re-entered  the  service 
as  a  Captain  in  the  Second  Massachusetts  Heavy  Artil- 

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MEMORIALS.  165 

lery,  October  8,  1863,  where  he  remained  until  that 
second  regimental  muster-out,  September  15,  1865.  His 
war  service  was  in  the  Department  of  Virginia,  and  later 
in  the  Department  of  North  Carolina. 

Captain  White,  who  was  born  in  Boston,  July  20, 
1832,  became  a  member  of  our  Order  through  the  Massa- 
chusetts Commandery,  June  2,  1868,  and  was  transferred 
to  the  Illinois  Commandery,  May  7,  1879,  becoming  by 
that  transfer  a  privileged  charter-member  of  our  Com- 
mandery, which  last  circumstance  is  a  third  reason  why 
his  death  should  appeal  strongly  to  our  hearts. 

Captain  White  died,  at  the  date  named,  in  the 
Soldiers'  Home  at  Marion,  Indiana,  of  pneumonia.  We 
gather  that  he  was  disabled  because  of  tuberculosis,  and 
that  in  the  days  of  his  increasing  sickness  he  found  a 
refuge  among  old  soldiers  in  the  Home  provided  through 
our  national  patriotic  gratitude  towards  those  who  risked 
all  fatigues,  privations  and  perils  that  the  republic  might 
live  and  not  die. 

The  routine  and  life  in  the  best  of  these  homes  are 
humble  and  unobtrusive.  The  inevitable  monotony  is 
sometimes  broken  by  local  celebrations  when  maimed 
and  scarred  heroes  beat  their  old  war  drums,  and,  despite 
their  persistent  aches  and  pains,  mutually  stimulate  their 
patriotic  memories,  repledge  their  undying  loyalty,  and 
pathetically  try  to  believe  that  they  are  tenderly  cherished 
in  the  hearts  of  an  unforgetful  republic.  As  time  thins 
their  diminishing  numbers,  and  the  poor  battered  bodies 
grow  too  weak  to  wave  an  ancient  battle-flag,  and  the 
tongue  becomes  too  feeble  to  articulate  the  remembered 
battle-shout,  the  thorough-going  hero  turns  his  face 
away  from  the  battling  past  to  get  a  compensating 
glimpse  of  the  future  of  the  republic  now  the  more  firmly 
founded  upon  the  principles  for  which  he  was  once  will- 


1 66  MEMORIALS. 

ing  even  to  die,  if  need  be.  If  all  others  forget  these 
patriots  in  their  humble  asylums,  surely  we  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  will  be  guiltless  of  that  ungrateful  sin. 

The  internal  economy  of  these  Soldiers'  Homes  is 
very  simple,  and  their  rewards,  aside  from  food,  sleep, 
medication  and  rest,  are  exceedingly  few.  The  general 
command  is  the  gift  of  the  general  government,  while 
lesser  authority  comes  through  good  conduct  and  local 
confidence.  We  are  touched  by  the  unobtrusive  but 
significant  fact  that  Captain  White  was  in  charge  of' one 
of  the  Barracks  of  the  Home  in  which  he  died.  That 
humble  circumstance  shows  that  he  had  promotion  in 
the  quiet  military  community  where  Rest  and  Order  are 
vital  elements.  When  the  last  hour  came  he  exchanged 
greetings  and  partings  with  his  wife  and  son  who  arrived 
in  time  to  smooth  his  dying  pillow.  The  remains  were 
taken  to  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  for  burial. 

ARTHUR  EDWARDS, 
HUNTINGTON  W.   JACKSON, 
THOMAS  C.   EDWARDS, 

Committee. 


ROSWELL  GRISWOLD  BOGUE. 

Alajor   and   Surgeon    Nineteenth    Illinois    Infantry,     United   States 
Volunteers.      Died  at   Chicago,   Illinois,   December  c?,    1893. 

Wfj  AJOR  Roswell  Griswold  Bogue  was  born  in  Louis- 
|  I  ville,  St.  Lawrence  County,  New  York,  May  2, 
^^*  1832,  and  died  in  Chicago,  December  8,  1893. 
He  was  educated  at  the  Castleton  Academy,  Vermont, 
and  spent  the  earlier  years  of  his  young  manhood  in 
teaching.  From  the  East  he  came  to  Columbus,  Ohio, 
where  he  read  medicine  with  a  distinguished  surgeon  of 
that  time,  Dr.  Norman  Gay.  He  then  attended  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  New  York  City, 
from  which  he  received  his  degree  in  the  winter  of  1856 
and  1857,  and  in  the  spring  of  1857  located  in  Chicago, 
and  began  his  successful  career  in  the  practice  of  medi- 

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1 68  MEMORIALS. 

cine.  He  found  friends  at  the  outset  of  his  career,  fitted 
as  he  was  for  the  healing  art,  both  by  nature  and  edu- 
cation. 

Upon  August  5,  1861,  he  was  commissioned  Major 
and  Surgeon,  and  assigned  to  duty  as  Surgeon  of  the 
Nineteenth  Illinois  Infantry;  and  continued  constantly  in 
this  service,  until  mustered  out  on  July  9,  1864. 

The  Regimental  Surgeon  of  the  United  States  Army 
enters  upon  his  duty  with  no  expectation  of  increased 
rank  or  pay.  He  can  hope  for  increased  honors  and 
responsibilities — and  these  came  to  Dr.  Bogue.  He 
served  with  his  regiment  through  the  Missouri,  Kentucky, 
Tennessee  and  Alabama  campaigns  up  to  March,  1863, 
when  he  was  appointed  Medical  Director  of  the  Second 
Division  of  the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps,  commanded  by 
General  Negley.  When  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland 
was  reorganized  in  October,  1863,  Dr.  Bogue  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Third  Division  of  the  Fourteenth  Army 
Corps  commanded  by  General  Baird,  and  again  honored 
by  the  appointment  as  Medical  Director.  He  was  with 
this  command  in  all  the  battles  in  which  it  participated, 
notably  those  of  Chickamauga,  Chattanooga,  Mission 
Ridge,  Buzzard's  Roost,  and  Resaca.  In  all  of  these 
posts  of  duty  there  is  one  continuous  record  of  faithful- 
ness, and  efficiency. 

Dr.  Bogue  was  a  man  of  deep  sympathy  and  he  did 
not  know  what  it  was  to  spare  himself  when  a  wounded 
soldier  was  begging  for  help.  After  a  battle  it  was  no 
unusual  experience  of  the  faithful  Surgeon,  to  work  all 
night,  sometimes  leaning  over  the  operating  table  until 
he  found  it  impossible  to  straighten  himself  into  an  erect 
attitude,  without  the  aid  of  his  assistants.  It  was  there 
amid  such  surroundings,  performing  the  most  difficult 
operations  of  surgery  by  the  flaring  light  of  torches  and 


MEMORIALS.  169 

tallow  candles,  with  body  and  mind  taxed  to  their  utmost, 
that  he  doubtless  laid  the  foundations  for  the  disease 
that  later  on  destroyed  the  nerves  of  his  eyes,  and  then 
ended  his  life  by  attacking  the  brain. 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  Dr.  Bogue  returned  to  Chi- 
cago, and  again  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion. He  had  a  natural  aptitude  and  love  for  surgery 
and  sought  as  much  as  possible  to  give  up  his  general 
practice,  and  devote  himself  exclusively  to  it.  This  he 
found  it  difficult  to  do,  honored  and  loved  as  man  and 
physician,  in  a  multitude  of  homes.  In  addition  to  his 
skill  as  an  operator,  he  was  masterly  in  diagnosis,  and  his 
opinions  were  widely  sought  by  his  professional  brethren. 

He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Cook  County 
Hospital,  and  was  for  thirteen  years  one  of  the  Attending 
Surgeons.  He  was  the  first  Professor  of  Surgery  in  the 
Woman's  College,  and  was  for  many  years  the  Attending 
Surgeon  for  the  Hospital  of  Women  and  Children.  He 
was  Consulting  Surgeon  for  both  the  Presbyterian  and 
St.  Joseph's  Hospital  from  their  organization  until  his 
death.  Major  Bogue  joined  this  Commandery,  December 
5,  1883,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  no  member  more  keenly 
enjoyed  its  privileges.  After  he  became  entirely  blind 
the  members  of  the  North  Side  made  it  their  pleasing 
duty,  to  take  turns  in  escorting  him  to  the  meetings, 
whenever  the  weather  and  his  failing  health  permitted; 
and  he  frequently  expressed  his  gratitude,  and  spoke  of 
the  meetings  as  the  enjoyable  events  of  the  month. 
Blind  and  shut  off  in  a  large  measure  from  later  events, 
he  loved  to  live  over  again  the  old  army  life  in  the  papers, 
the  old  songs  and  the  reminiscences  of  life  in  camp. 
Both  socially  and  professionally  the  old  soldier  always 
found  a  sympathizing  friend  in  Dr.  Bogue,  and  as  a 
citizen  he  was  a  man  among  men. 


I7O  MEMORIALS. 

He  was  a  profoundly  religious  man  who  exemplified 
its  teachings  by  his  every  day  practical  life  of  "doing 
good."  Called  from  us  before  his  three  score  years  and 
ten,  yet  his  was  a  beautiful,  well  rounded  life,  and  one 
whose  memory  this  Commandery  will  cherish.  While 
we  enter  upon  our  records  our  high  appreciation  of  our 
departed  brother  and  express  our  own  sorrow,  we  desire 
to  tender  to  the  loved  ones  in  his  stricken  home  our  pro- 
found sympathy. 

OLIVER  W.   NIXON, 
EVERETT  B.   PRESTON, 

ALBERT  L.   COE, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  LANGWORTHY  OGDEN. 

First   Lieutenant    Third  Nezu    York   Cavalry  and  Brevet    Captain, 
United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago, 
Illinois,  December  21  , 


ON  THE  2  ist  day  of  December,   1893,  William  Lang- 
worthy  Ogden  bade  farewell  to  his  Companions  in 
the    Illinois    Commandery  of    the  Loyal   Legion. 
Grasping  the  hand  of  that  invisible  Peacemaker,  whose 
mission  brings  surcease  of  sorrow,  he  entered  the  portals 
of  another  life. 

He  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November  2,  1841. 
Soon  after  his  parents  moved  to  Rochester,  N.Y.,  where 
he  grew  from  childhood  to  manhood  and  received  his 
education. 

He  enlisted  June   13,   1861,  as  private  in  the  Third 

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172  MEMORIALS. 

Regiment  New  York  Volunteer  Cavalry.  His  promotion 
to  Sergeant  and  then  Sergeant  Major  came  soon  after, 
and  in  1864  he  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  and 
Adjutant,  serving  as  such  until  mustered  out  in  Novem- 
ber, 1865. 

Returning  to  Rochester  he  accepted  employment  in 
the  office  of  Moore's  Rural  New  Yorker,  remaining  there 
until  November,  1866.  He  then  came  to  Chicago  and 
entered  the  service  of  the  Chicago  Tribune,  where  he 
remained  until  his  death,  having  risen  from  the  position 
of  foreman  of  the  mailing  room  to  be  the  Tribune  s  busi- 
ness manager.  He  was  married  in  October,  1869,  his 
wife  dying  in  May,  1878. 

Lieutenant  Ogden  was  an  exemplary  citizen,  quiet, 
unostentatious,  strict,  yet  kind;  in  all  his  business  rela- 
tions he  won  the  confidence,  respect  and  approbation  of 
his  associates.  By  his  death  the  Commandery  loses  a 
worthy  Companion,  one  who  honored  the  Commandery 
by  his  association  with  it. 

He  leaves  one  child,  a  daughter,  now  the  wife  of  H. 
B.  Cook,  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade.  He  also  leaves 
three  sisters  and  a  brother.  We  extend  to  them  our 
sympathy  and  feel  that  we  too  have  lost  a  Companion 
worthy  of  us. 

GEORGE  MASON, 
MARTIN  J.   RUSSELL, 
CHARLES  F.  MATTESON, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  ANDREW  JAMES. 

Captain  Third  Rhode  Island  Cavalry  and  Brevet  Major,   United 

States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Highland  Park, 

Illinois,   December  jr,   180,3. 

ONCE  more  we  are  called  upon  to  mourn  the  death 
of  a  beloved  Companion.     William  Andrew  James, 
who  came  of  good  old  Puritan  stock,  was  born   at 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  December  8,   1837,  and  died 
at  Highland  Park,  Illinois,  December  31,   1893. 

He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Tenth  Rhode  Island 
Volunteers,  June  i,  1861  (three  months'  service),  and 
returned  as  First  Sergeant.  He  was  commissioned 
October  i,  1862,  Captain  in  the  Eleventh  Rhode  Island 
Volunteers  (nine  months'  service),  and  mustered  out  July 
13,  1863.  He  was  commissioned  Captain  Third  Rhode 
Island  Cavalry,  and  resigned  April  25,  1865,  on  account 

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174  MEMORIALS. 

of  physical  disability.  He  served  in  the  defense  of  Wash- 
ington, was  at  the  siege  of  Suffolk  and  Blackwater,  at 
Yorktown  and  Williamsburg;  was  with  General  Banks  on 
the  Red  River  Campaign,  on  which  occasion  he  was 
assigned  as  acting  Assistant  Inspector  General  on  the 
Staff  of  General  E.  R.  S.  Canby,  and  he  also  took  part 
in  the  siege  of  Spanish  Fort,  Fort  Blakeley  and  the  cap- 
ture of  Mobile.  He  was  brevetted  Major  by  President 
Lincoln  "for  distinguished  services  in  the  Department 
of  the  Gulf."  He  was  over  six  feet  in  height,  with  a 
commanding  presence  and  soldierly  bearing. 

On  being  mustered  out  of  the  service,  Major  James, 
like  a  great  many  other  Eastern  men,  made  his  way  West 
and  located  in  Chicago  in  1865.  For  a  long  time  he  was 
a  partner  of  ex-Mayor  John  A.  Roche.  They  were  burned 
out  at  the  time  of  the  great  fire,  and  sustained  heavy 
losses,  but  with  old-time  pluck  he  put  his  shoulder  to  the 
wheel  and  pulled  out  a  good  competence  for  himself  and 
family.  He  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Representatives 
from  the  Eighth  Senatorial  District  in  1875;  re-elected 
in  1877,  and  again  in  1879,  when  he  was  made  Speaker 
of  the  House.  He  was  the  only  Speaker  of  the  House 
who  had  not  been  a  professional  lawyer.  He  proved  a 
most  popular  officer,  prompt  in  the  dispatch  of  business, 
courteous  and  fair  in  his  dealings,  and  notably  impartial. 
Those  of  us  who  were  his  friends  and  neighbors  can 
truthfully  say  we  never  heard  him  speak  ill  of  any  one. 
He  was  always  ready  to  help  the  needy  with  heart,  hand 
and  pocketbook.  The  whole  community  will  feel  the 
loss  of  a  faithful  friend  and  adviser.  To  his  family  we 
offer  our  heartfelt  sympathy. 

GEORGE  C.   BALL, 
WILLIAM  J.   HEMSTREET, 

OTHO  H.    MORGAN, 

Committee. 


JOHN  HENRY  RAUCH. 

Major  and  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  March  24,  1894. 

IU1  AJOR  and  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel  John  Henry 
j  "  \  Rauch,  late  a  Companion  of  this  Commandery, 
^*~ '  died  of  paralysis  of  the  heart  at  the  home  of  his 
brother  at  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  March  24,  1894. 
Doctor  Rauch,  as  he  was  familiarly  known,  was  born  at 
Lebanon,  Pennsylvania,  September  4,  1828.  He  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1849,  with 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  In  1850  he  moved  to 
Burlington,  Iowa,  where  for  a  number  of  years  he  was  a 
successful  practitioner  in  his  chosen  profession.  He  was 
appointed  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Medicinal 
Botany  in  Rush  Medical  College  of  this  city  in  the  year 

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1857,  filling  this  position  with  great  credit  to  himself  and 
the  College  for  three  years. 

Companion  Rauch  served  as  a  Volunteer  Aid  upon 
the  Staff  of  General  Hunter  at  the  first  battle  of  Bull 
Run.  Here  he  rendered  General  Hunter  and  other 
wounded  soldiers  important  medical  and  surgical  aid,  for 
which  he  was  specially  thanked  and  mentioned  in  gen- 
eral orders.  He  was  appointed  Surgeon  of  Volunteers, 
August  3,  1 86 1,  and  was  thereupon  assigned  to  duty  as 
Brigade  Surgeon  of  Keyes'  Brigade,  McDowell's  Division, 
at  Arlington  Heights,  Virginia.  He  was  successively 
Medical  Director  of  Augur's  Division,  Medical  Director 
at  Culpepper,  Assistant  Medical  Director  of  the  Army  of 
Virginia,  and  Medical  Director  of  the  Thirteenth  and 
Nineteenth  Corps  in  the  field.  March  13,  1865,  he  was 
brevetted  Lieutenant  Colonel  for  faithful  and  meritorious 
services,  and  was  honorably  discharged  July  14,  1865. 

Upon  his  return  to  Chicago,  in  1865,  he  re-entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  aided  in  organ- 
izing the  Board  of  Health  of  this  city,  and  in  1867  was 
appointed  a  member  thereof  and  Sanitary  Superintend- 
ent, which  office  he  held  for  six  years.  In  1876  he  was 
elected  President  of  the  American  Public  Health  Associa- 
tion. He  was  instrumental  in  the  organization  of  the 
Illinois  State  Board  of  Health  which  was  created  in  1877; 
was  its  first  President,  and  was  either  its  President  or 
Secretary  from  its  organization  to  the  year  1892.  In 
1892  he  assisted  Companion  ex-Surgeon  General  Hamil- 
ton in  the  establishment  of  the  quarantine  station  at 
Camp  Low,  New  York. 

Companion  Rauch  was  a  great  scientist  in  all  matters 
that  pertain  to  the  public  health.  For  more  than  twenty- 
five  years  immediately  prior  to  his  death  no  man  in  Illi- 
nois, and  probably  no  man  in  the  United  States,  devoted 


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more  time  arid  thought  to  the  devising  and  carrying  out 
of  intelligent  and  practical  plans  and  methods  in  Sani- 
tary Science  than  he. 

The  members  of  the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Health, 
who  possessed  a  full  knowledge  of  the  great  services  of 
Major  Rauch,  not  only  to  the  people  of  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois, but  to  the  Nation,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board,  held 
soon  after  his  death,  said  of  him: 

"  He  was  the  first  man  in  our  midst  to  place  the  sub- 
ject of  public  health  upon  a  scientific  basis,  treating  the 
vital  questions  of  drainage  and  water  supply  with  the 
intelligence  and  energy  necessary  to  bring  about  results 
and  projecting  plans  in  sanitary  science  that  will  long 
remain  models  worthy  the  study  of  the  student  of  public 
health.  Besides  the  recognition  of  Doctor  Rauch 's  great 
knowledge  of  the  subject  he  had  made  his  own,  this 
Board  wishes  to  record  its  enthusiasm  for  and  apprecia- 
tion of  his  devotion  to  his  work;  likewise  of  his  many 
virtues  as  a  friend  and  physician." 

Major  Rauch  was  a  good  soldier,  a  thoughtful  and 
intelligent  scientist,  and  an  honorable  and  useful  man, 
whose  influence  and  works  will  be  appreciated  by  those 
yet  unborn. 

THOMAS  E.   MILCHRIST, 
GEORGE  HUNT, 
WILLIAM  E.   CLARKE, 

Committee. 


THOMAS  SEAMAN  WRIGHT. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Third  lozva   Cavalry,   United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  New  York  City,  July  26,   1894. 

nUTENANT  Thomas  Seaman   Wright  was  born  at 
Keosauqua,  Iowa,  September  29,  1844,  and  died  in 
New  York  City,  July  26,  1894.      He  was  the  son  of 
the  Hon.  George  G.  Wright,  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Iowa  Commandery,  and  for  many  years  Chief  Justice, 
and  late  United  States  Senator  from  Iowa. 

Lieutenant  Wright  entered  the  Iowa  State  University 
at  the  age  of  sixteen,  but,  filled  with  patriotic  devotion 
to  his  country,  left  college  to  become  First  Lieutenant 
and  Adjutant  of  the  Third  Iowa  Cavalry  in  November, 
1864.  On  December  4th  of  the  same  year  he  was  cap- 
tured in  a  fight  with  guerillas  near  Memphis,  Tennessee, 

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and  was  held  a  prisoner  at  Grenada  and  Meridian,  Mis- 
sissippi, and  at  Andersonville,  Georgia,  until  April,  1865. 
He  was  mustered  out  of  service  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  in 
June,  1865. 

He  was  made  a  member  of  the  First  Class  through 
the  Iowa  Commandery,  March  19,  1887,  and  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Illinois  Commandery  October  21,  1891. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  he  entered  the  Law  De- 
partment of  the  University  of  Iowa,  graduating  in  1867, 
and  began  the  practice  of  the  law  in  company  with  the 
late  Thomas  F.  Withrow,  General  Counsel  for  the  Chi- 
cago, Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad  Company,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  the  General  Attorney  of  that 
company.  He  left  a  wife  and  three  children  surviving 
him. 

A  good  soldier,  a  safe  counsellor,  an  honest  man  and 
a  devout  patriot,  his  character  furnishes  an  example  wor- 
thy of  the  highest  emulation. 

To  his  family  we  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathy  and 
to  this  Commandery  we  commend  his  memory  as  one 
to  be  ever  cherished. 

WILLIAM  F.    MERRILL, 
JAMES   D.    SPRINGER, 
HILON  A.   PARKER, 

Committee. 


JAMES  LEWIS  TRUMBULL, 

Captain,   Assistant   Quartermaster  and  Brevet  Lieutenant    Colonel, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago, 

Illinois,  July  ji    1894 

I  HE  minutes  of  our  time  strike  on,  and  are  counted 
i,      by  the  angels.     Death,  that  tireless  hunter  of  men, 
has  again  invaded  our  ranks  and  taken  hence  one  of  our 
number. 

James  Lewis  Trumbull  died  very  suddenly  of  heart 
disease  at  his  residence  in  this  city,  Tuesday  night,  July 
31,  1894.  He  was  born  at  Burketsville,  Maryland,  July 
26,  1836.  About  1855  his  father  moved  with  his  family 
to  Centerville,  Indiana,  where  he  grew  to  manhood.  He 
was  graduated  at  Whitewater  College  at  that  place,  after 
which  he  moved  to  Indianapolis  and  engaged  in  the  ex- 
press business.  He  was  married  in  1861  to  Miss  Mary 

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Kinder,  who  with  three  daughters  and  one  son  survives 
him. 

Colonel  Trumbull's  career  was  an  active  one,  and  his 
military  service  in  the  late  war  was  creditable  to  himself 
and  to  the  cause  he  served.  Before  the  war  he  was  iden- 
tified with  the  Merchants'  Union  Express  Company,  from 
which  he  resigned  in  September,  1861,  to  enter  the  service 
as  a  private  in  the  Eleventh  Regiment  of  Indiana  Volun- 
teers, taking  part  with  that  regiment  in  the  battles  of 
Romney  and  Chambersburg  in  Western  Virginia.  He 
was  commissioned  Captain  and  Assistant  Quartermaster 
in  November,  1863,  and  served  with  the  Cavalry  Division 
at  Washington,  D.  C. ,  afterwards  in  the  Department  of 
the  Missouri  and  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  and  was 
brevetted  Lieutenant  Colonel  for  "gallant  and  merito- 
rious services."  He  was  mustered  out  in  November,  1863. 

Colonel  Trumbull  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  a  Past  Commander  of 
George  H.  Thomas  Post  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  as  well 
as  an  honored  Companion  of  this  Commandery.  Since 
the  close  of  the  WTar,  Colonel  Trumbull  served  the  Gov- 
ernment in  the  Internal  Revenue  Department,  and  for 
many  years  past  has  been  General  Superintendent  of  the 
Central  Division  of  the  American  Express  Company.  He 
was  apparently  in  the  best  of  health,  and  his  sudden 
death  startled  and  shocked  his  family  and  his  associates, 
as  well  as  this  Commandery. 

To  all  places  of  trust,  our  late  Companion  brought  a 
well-disciplined  mind,  discharging  all  the  duties  of  the 
several  offices  to  which  he  was  called,  with  fidelity  to 
the  trusts  committed  to  his  care;  indeed,  it  seems  to 
have  been  with  him  a  leading  thought  of  life — fidelity  to 
the  trusts  reposed  in  him,  or  the  responsibilities  assumed 
by  him,  in  his  relations  to  others. 


1 82  MEMORIALS. 

"  Man  dies,  but  his  memory  lives." 

Under  the  sobered  realities  which  are  pressed  upon 
our  hearts,  we  are  deeply  touched  in  our  affectionate  re- 
membrance of  those  who  have  gone  before,  and  it  is  well 
that  amid  the  cares  and  activities  of  the  world,  we  have 
set  apart  and  dedicated  ourselves  to  pay  one  tribute  to 
the  memory  of  those  who  are  no  longer  with  us — for  the 
memories  of  our  dead  are  very  dear  to  us.  It  is  the  fond 
hope  of  every  one  to  leave  his  memory  to  be  treasured 
by  some,  when  he  shall  have  passed  away.  All  cling  to 
the  heart's  affections,  even  when  the  heart  is  soon  to  be 
stilled  forever. 

The  earthen  vase  which  contained  the  mortal  has 
been  committed  to  the  earth,  and  his  immortal  spirit  has 
gone  to  the  God  who  gave  it.  His  virtues  and  labors 
will  remain  fragrant  in  our  memories  long  after  the  clay 
shall  have  mouldered  with  the  dust. 

While  we  offer  our  sacrifice  of  thanksgiving  and 
praise,  let  us  not  forget  to  drop  a  tear  of  sympathy  for 
the  widow  and  the  orphans. 

CHARLES  E.   BLIVEN, 
MYRON  H.    BEACH, 
ROBERT  C.    CLOWRY, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  DAWSON  CROOKE, 

Major  Twenty-first  loiua  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Hinsdale,  Illinois,  Afril  27,  1894. 

'TT.S  THE  lightning  writes  its  fiery  path  across  the 
[\  storm-cloud  and  expires,  so  the  race  of  man  amid 
^^  the  surrounding  shades  of  mortality,  glitters  for  a 
moment  amid  the  dark  gloom  and  vanishes  from  our 
sight  forever. 

The  spirit  of  William  Dawson  Crooke,  an  honored 
Companion  of  this  Commandery,  passed  into  the  great 
unknown  on  Friday,  the  27th  day  of  April,  1894. 

Major  Crooke  was  born  at  Hebden  Bridge,  Yorkshire, 
England.  His  parents  were  members  of  the  Baptist 
Church,  and  his  father,  the  Rev.  John  Crooke,  was  the 
minister  of  the  church  at  that  place.  He  came  to  this 

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184  MEMORIALS. 

country  in  1853,  when  about  sixteen  years  of  age,  and 
settled  near  McGregor,  Iowa,  where  for  about  two  years 
he  worked  upon  a  farm.  Later  he  studied  law  with  Odell 
&  Updegraff,  at  McGregor,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1862. 

Major  Crooke  entered  the  service  as  Captain  of  Com- 
pany B,  Twenty-first  Regiment  of  Iowa  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, August  1 8,  1862,  and  was  promoted  to  be  Major 
of  the  same  regiment,  January  25,  1865.  His  military 
record  is  that  of  a  typical  soldier.  He  served  in  the  De- 
partment of  Missouri — attached  to  the  Brigade  of  Gen- 
eral Fitz  Henry  Warren — and  was  stationed  at  Rolla, 
Salem,  Hartville  and  Houston,  in  October,  November 
and  December,  1862,  and  January,  1863.  He  was  en- 
gaged in  the  battle  of  Hartville,  January  11,  1863,  with 
Marmaduke's  rebel  force,  which  was  returning  from  an 
attack  on  Springfield.  Afterwards  he  was  attached  to 
Brigadier  General  Davidson's  Army  of  Southeastern  Mis- 
souri during  an  expedition  to  West  Plains,  returning  with 
his  regiment  to  St.  Genevieve,  Missouri;  embarked  for 
Milliken's  Bend,  Louisiana,  joining  General  Grant's  army 
before  Vicksburg,  April  6,  1863,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
Second  Brigade,  Fourteenth  Division,  Thirteenth  Army 
Corps,  and  served  throughout  the  remainder  of  the 
Vicksburg  Campaign,  being  engaged  in  the  battles  of 
Port  Gibson,  Champion  Hills,  Big  Black  River  Bridge, 
and  the  assault  upon  Vicksburg,  May  22d,  and  the  re- 
mainder of  the  siege,  and  afterwards  took  part  in  Sher- 
man's expedition  to  Jackson,  Mississippi.  Major  Crooke 
was  in  command  of  his  regiment  from  June  15  to  July 
24,  1863.  In  August  the  regiment  was  sent  to  New 
Orleans  for  service  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf, 
when  it  took  part  in  the  Bayou  Teche  Campaign  under 
General  Banks. 


MEMORIALS.  185 

In  November  following,  the  regiment  under  command 
of  Major  Crooke  was  sent  to  Texas  and  served  under 
the  command  of  General  C.  C.  Washburn.  Upon  the 
return  of  the  regiment  to  New  Orleans  it  was  assigned  to 
the  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division,  Nineteenth  Army 
Corps,  and  served  in  the  lower  Mississippi,  White  and  Ar- 
kansas River  country.  On  December  i,  1864,  it  marched 
from  Memphis  to  Wolf  River,  in  support  of  Grierson's 
cavalry  raid  upon  the  rear  of  Hood's  army.  Afterward 
the  regiment  returned  to  Memphis  and  New  Orleans.  He 
resigned  in  January,  1865,  and  was  immediately  appoint- 
ed to  the  charge  of  a  large  cantonment  of  negroes  near 
Baton  Rouge,  under  the  direction  of  the  Freedman's  Bu- 
reau, where  he  remained  for  several  months  and  until 
after  his  regiment  was  mustered  out  at  Baton  Rouge. 
He  returned  to  McGregor  in  broken  health,  and  after- 
wards engaged  in  the  business  of  insurance  at  that  place, 
where  he  was  elected  Recorder  of  Deeds  for  Clayton 
County.  He  subsequently  formed  a  partnership  in  the 
insurance  business  with  his  brother,  George  Crooke,  an 
honored  Companion  of  the  Wisconsin  Commandery. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1876  and  later  was  appointed 
Assistant  Manager  of  the  Northwestern  Department  of 
the  Royal  Insurance  Company  of  Liverpool,  England, 
in  which  position  he  remained  until  he  was,  in  1882,  ap- 
pointed Manager  of  the  Northern  Insurance  Company  of 
Liverpool,  England,  the  duties  of  which  he  continued  to 
discharge  to  the  satisfaction  of  that  prominent  company 
until  the  day  of  his  death.  When  his  health  began  to 
fail  he  tendered  his  resignation  to  the  company,  which  it 
declined  to  accept,  and  sent  one  of  the  executive  officers 
to  this  country  to  assist  in  the  discharge  of  the  duties  as 
Manager  until  Major  Crooke  should  be  restored  to  health, 
as  was  then  earnestly  hoped. 


1 86  MEMORIALS. 

Major  Crooke  was  a  singularly  modest  man,  but  with 
a  firmness  to  do  the  right  as  he  understood  the  right, 
regardless  of  personal  consequence.  One  of  his  chief 
characteristics  was  a  conscientious  discharge  of  duty, 
whether  as  a  soldier  or  civilian.  Duty  was  with  him 
always,  "as  exacting  as  necessity,  inflexible  as  fate,  and 
as  imperative  as  destiny." 

Major  Crooke  was  married  at  McGregor,  Iowa,  in 
1866,  to  Miss  Sarah  S.  Updegraff,  who,  with  a  niece, 
Miss  Lydia  Timmons,  as  a  member  of  his  family,  survives 
him.  Nearly  two  years  since  he  was  stricken  with  an 
incurable  disease.  Fully  realizing  his  situation,  he  calmly 
and  yet  minutely  began  to  put  his  house  in  order,  and 
with  a  courage  that  was  truly  heroic,  awaited  the  final 
roll-call.  When  it  came,  he  was  ready. 

When  such  a  man  is  removed  from  our  councils,  it  is 
meet  that  while  we  mourn  his  loss,  we  should  also  testify 
to  the  world  our  love  and  our  respect  for  him  and  our 
appreciation  of  his  character  and  services.  The  day  on 
which  the  last  respects  were  paid  to  the  memory  of  our 
late  Companion,  was  an  ideal  one,  as  also  was  the  sim- 
ple yet  dignified  service  over  his  remains.  Kind  friends, 
among  whom  were  members  of  this  Commandery,  laid 
him  away  tenderly;  the  vault  which  contains  his  remains 
was  covered  with  a  profusion  of  beautiful  flowers,  placed 
there  by  gentle  hands,  guided  by  the  sorrowing  hearts 
of  the  employes  of  our  late  Companion,  his  business 
associates,  and  this  Commandery,  as  their  tribute  of 
respect. 

Our  harp  is  tuned  to  mourning;  the  life  of  our  late 
Companion  has  been  accomplished  and  is  complete. 
While  we  his  memory  cherish,  let  us  his  virtues  imitate 
and  his  death  improve.  With  fragrance  eternal,  may 


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the  acacia — as  an  emblem  of  resurrection  and  immor- 
tality— ever  be  green  over  his  mortal  bed. 

CHARLES  E.    BLIVEN, 
EUGENE  GARY, 
AMOS   J.   HARDING, 

Committee. 


THOMAS   COXEY   FULLERTON, 

Captain    Sixty-fourth   Illinois  Infantry,    United   States    Volunteers. 
Died  at  Fairbury,  Illinois,  'August  2, 


e'TAIN  Thomas  C.  Fullerton  was  born  in  Montgom- 
ery County,  Pennsylvania,  August  21,  1839,  and 
died  at  Fairbury,  Illinois,  August  2,  1894.  He  moved 
with  his  parents  to  La  Salle  County,  Illinois,  in  October, 
1855.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A,  Sixty- 
fourth  Illinois  Infantry,  September  25,  1861,  and  October 
25th  of  that  year  was  appointed  Orderly  Sergeant.  On 
the  28th  of  June,  1863,  he  was  promoted  to  the  First 
Lieutenancy  of  his  company,  and  Adjutant  of  his  regi- 
ment, and  on  April  2,  1864,  was  commissioned  as  Cap- 
tain of  Company  C.  About  the  same  time  he  was  ap- 
pointed Acting  Assistant  Inspector  General  on  the  Staff 

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MEMORIALS.  189 

of  General  Sprague,  commanding  the  Second  Brigade, 
Fourth  Division,  Sixteenth  Army  Corps,  and  subsequently 
served  in  the  same  capacity  on  the  Staff  of  Generals  G. 
M.  Dodge  and  T.  E.  G.  Ransom,  and  continued  in  dis- 
charge of  that  duty  until  October,  1864,  when  he  resigned. 

He  was  with  the  army  at  New  Madrid,  Island  No.  10, 
Fort  Pillow,  luka,  Corinth,  and  the  Atlanta  Campaign 
from  Resaca  to  Jonesboro. 

In  March,  prior  to  his  enlistment,  Captain  Fullerton 
was  married  to  Almeda  D.  Dyer,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 
Mr.  William  D,  Fullerton,  now  an  honored  member  of 
the  Chicago  bar  and  of  this  Commandery. 

When  Captain  Fullerton  returned  from  the  army  he 
studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  bar  January 
1 6,  1866,  and  removed  to  and  opened  an  office  in  Hunts- 
ville,  Alabama,  and  the  following  fall  was  appointed 
Assistant  United  States  District  Attorney  for  the  North- 
ern District  of  that  State.  He  was  subsequently  elected 
to  and  declined  the  office  of  States  Attorney  for  Madison 
County.  In  June,  1868,  he  was  appointed  Register  in 
Bankruptcy,  and  served  until  January,  1871,  when  he 
resigned  and  moved  to  the  city  of  Washington,  D.  C. , 
for  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  November,  1881, 
he  returned  to  Ottawa,  Illinois,  where  he  resided  to  the 
time  of  his  death. 

His  wife  having  died  many  years  before,  in  July,  1886, 
he  married  Miss  Vincey  Tuthill  Bushnell,  daughter  of  the 
late  Hon.  Washington  Bushnell,  of  Ottawa,  whom  he  left 
surviving  him,  together  with  two  sons  and  two  daughters, 
issue  of  the  second  marriage.  Upon  his  return  to  Ottawa 
he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  achieved 
marked  success,  especially  as  a  safe  and  wise  counsellor. 
He  was  appointed  Master  in  Chancery  in  1888,  and 
served  until  his  death.  He  was  an  active  republican,  a 


MEMORIALS. 

member  of  his  county  and  of  the  state  central  commit- 
tee, and  won  high  praise  for  his  political  ability  and 
sagacity.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Seth  C.  Earl 
Post,  No.  156,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  took 
high  rank  at  home  as  well  as  in  the  department  of  the 
Order  in  this  state,  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  En- 
campment. 

On  the  1 9th  day  of  July,  1894,  he  was  nominated  by 
the  republican  party  of  the  Eleventh  Congressional  Dis- 
trict of  Illinois,  as  their  standard  bearer  for  Congress, 
and  with  the  energy  and  purpose  that  characterized  his 
life,  he  at  once  set  about  arranging  his  campaign.  For 
this  purpose  he  left  his  home  the  3ist  day  of  July,  and 
on  Thursday  afternoon  reached  Fairbury,  apparently  in 
perfect  health,  and  was  shown  to  his  room  at  the  hotel. 
Within  an  hour,  prominent  republicans  calling,  went  to 
his  room  and  found  him  sitting  in  his  chair — dead. 

Thus  ended  a  bright  and  useful  life.  In  the  midst  of 
an  exalted  ambition  and  the  brightest  hopes,  came  the 
end,  and  verified  that— 

"  'Tis  the  wink  of  an  eye,  'tis  the  draught  of  a  breath, 
From  the  blossom  of  health  to  the  paleness  of  death." 

How  rich  is  the  brief  summary  of  such  a  life.  And 
yet  how  impotent  are  words  to  fittingly  portray  the  life 
of  our  brave,  loyal,  wise  and  unselfish  Companion.  In 
every  walk  of  life,  in  every  station,  whether  upon  the 
battle  field  or  in  the  camp,  in  the  councils  of  his  party, 
as  a  lawyer  in  his  office,  or  in  social  or  domestic  life,  he 
assumed  and  discharged  every  obligation  resting  upon 
him.  Firm  in  his  convictions  of  the  right,  and  with  a 
conscientious  desire  to  fulfill  to  the  best  of  his  ability 
every  duty,  he  carefully  studied  the  phases  of  social, 
political  and  domestic  life,  and  squared  his  conduct  by 
the  full  measure  of  the  light  he  enjoyed.  No  man  stood 


MEMORIALS.  IQI 

higher  in  his  profession  for  integrity — no  citizen  com- 
manded more  sincere  respect,  and  in  social  life  he  at- 
tached friends  as  few  can. 

We  shall  see  his  form  no  more;  his  wise  counsel  will 
no  longer  guide  us.  That  kindly  voice  that  spoke  words 
of  cheer  and  condolence  to  the  downcast  and  bereaved, 
of  encouragement  and  hope,  will  be  heard  no  more.  But 
to  those  who  knew  him  there  will  remain  a  fragrant 
memory  of  a  life  controlled  by  kindly  impulses,  sustained 
by  an  unfaltering  trust  in  the  beneficence  of  God,  and 
faith  in  the  brotherhood  of  men,  and  by  a  conscious  in- 
tegrity of  character  that  admitted  of  no  lowering  of  an 
exalted  standard — a  memory  of  one  of  the  brightest  and 
best  types  of  American  citizenship  and  manhood. 

DOUGLAS  HAPEMAN, 

\  .  . 

WILLIAM  H.  H.  MCDOWELL', 
GEORGE  S.   ROPER, 

Committee. 


CLARENCE  HOPKINS  DYER. 

Major  and  Assistant  Adjutant   General,    United  States   Volunteers. 
Died  at  Woodstock,  Vermont,  August  10,  1894. 

CLARENCE  HOPKINS  DYER  was  born  at  Harwin- 
V,^  ton,  Connecticut,  July  21,  1832,  and  died  at  Wood- 
stock, Vermont,  August  10,  1894. 

He  was  appointed  Captain  and  Assistant  Adjutant 
General,  U.  S.  V. ,  September  25,  1861,  promoted  Major 
and  Assistant  Adjutant  General,  August  2,  1865,  and  hon- 
orably mustered  out  February  10,  1866.  His  first  service 
was  with  Major  General  Mansfield,  in  command  at  Camp 
Hamilton,  Virginia,  and  Newport  News,  at  the  time  of 
the  fight  between  the  Monitor  and  the  Merrimac  off  that 
point,  and  afterwards  in  command  of  the  Eleventh  Corps 
at  Antietam,  where  General  Mansfield  was  killed.  He 

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then  reported  to  Major  General  Banks  for  temporary 
duty  at  Washington  City,  after  which  he  served  with 
Major  General  E.  A.  Carr,  commanding  the  District  of 
St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  with  the  same  General  in  the 
Fourteenth  Division  of  the  Thirteenth  Corps  at  Vicks- 
burg  and  at  Little  Rock.  After  this  he  was  with  Major 
General  Canby  at  New  Orleans.  His  last  service  was 
with  Major  General  Wesley  Merritt,  who  commanded  a 
cavalry  corps  which  marched  from  Shreveport,  Louisiana, 
to  San  Antonio,  Texas.  He  was  elected  a  Companion 
of  the  Order  through  this  Commandery,  July  2,  1879,  and 
served  as  Chancellor  from  June,  1885,  to  June,  1886. 

Major  Dyer  was  the  loved  friend  of  every  Companion 
of  the  Commandery.  One  of  its  earliest  and  most  zealous 
members,  he  constantly  had  its  best  interests  at  heart, 
and  was  always  ready  to  give  his  time  and  best  effort  for 
its  benefit  and  advancement.  He  was  devoted  to  us  all. 
He  was  a  man  of  irreproachable  character,  modest  and 
unassuming,  genial  and  warm-hearted,  an  upright  and 
universally  respected  citizen.  A  brave  soldier,  his  war 
record  was  of  the  best.  We  tender  our  warmest  sympa- 
thy to  his  family,  and  regret  that  words  fail  us  to  give 
expression  to  our  feeling  for  this  pure,  honorable,  true 
man,  and  the  great  loss  we  have  sustained. 

TAYLOR  P.   RUNDLET, 
JOSEPH  J.   SIDDALL, 
THOMAS  C.   EDWARDS, 

Committee. 


THOMAS  WALLACE. 

Captain  Twelfth  Michigan  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers.    Died 
at  Evanston,  Illinois,  September  2.  1894. 

e/IPANION  Thomas  Wallace  was  born  at  Finnwick, 
Kilmarnock,  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  April  n,  1829. 
He  attended  school  there  until  the  age  of  fourteen  years, 
when  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  millwright  with  whom  he 
served  faithfully  his  term.  He  was  married  in  1849  to 
Miss  Agnes  Muir,  of  Kilmarnock,  and  in  1851  came  to  this, 
his  adopted  country,  where  he  endured  the  usual  hard- 
ships. On  arriving  at  Chicago,  he  accepted  the  first 
work  offered,  and  in  time  began  as  a  millwright,  con- 
structing mills  and  elevators.  In  1861  he  was  the  owner 
of  a  flour  mill  at  St.  Joseph,  Michigan,  and  being  natur- 
alized, felt  it  his  duty  to  his  adopted  country  to  partici- 
pate in  the  preservation  of  the  Union. 

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Having  entered  the  service  on  September  19,  1862, 
as  Captain  in  the  Twelfth  Michigan  Infantry,  he  was  with 
his  regiment  in  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  and  at  the 
battle  of  Shiloh,  April  6,  1862.  On  May  2,  1862,  on  ac- 
count of  physical  disability  contracted  in  the  service,  and 
always  regretting  his  inability  further  to  serve  his  adopt- 
ed country,  he  very  reluctantly  resigned,  and  in  time  re- 
sumed his  business  relations. 

In  1875  his  wife  died,  and  in  1879  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Annie  B.  Penrose,  daughter  of  the  late  Major  J.  W. 
Penrose,  Second  United  States  Infantry,  and  sister  of 
Lieutenant  Colonel  William  H.  Penrose,  Sixteenth  United 
States  Infantry. 

For  the  last  five  years  he  resided  at  Evanston,  Illinois, 
where  he  died  September  2,  1894,  after  protracted  suffer- 
ing, the  result  of  disease  contracted  in  the  service.  He 
was  buried  at  Rose  Hill  Cemetery,  September  5,  1894, 
with  Masonic  honors,  by  Cleveland  Lodge,  No.  211, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  Chicago  Com- 
mandery,  No.  19,  Knights  Templar,  of  Chicago,  of  which 
bodies  he  was  a  worthy  member.  He  was  a  good  citi- 
zen, a  devoted  husband,  and  a  brave  soldier.  To  his 
bereaved  widow  we  extend  the  heartfelt  sympathy  of  our 
Commandery  and  commend  her  to  God  for  consolation 
in  her  affliction. 

WILLIAM  J.  HEMSTREET, 
JOHN  MCLAREN, 
EDWARD  A.   BLODGETT, 

Committee. 


HENRY  PAYSON  AYRES. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Seventy-seventh  Illinois  Infantry, 

United  States  Volunteers,     Died  at  White  Bear  Lake, 

Minnesota,  September  6,  1894. 

T~\  EATH  has  been  very  busy  in  our  ranks  since  last  we 
|  y  met.  Among  the  many  gathered  by  that  untiring 
"""^  Reaper  it  is  our  painful  duty  to  announce  First 
Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Henry  Payson  Ayres,  who  de- 
parted this  life  Septemper  6,  1894,  at  White  Bear  Lake, 
Minnesota,  while  on  his  way  home  from  a  business  trip 
in  North  Dakota.  Bright,  energetic,  genial,  full  of  life 
and  spirits,  a  busy  man  in  a  busy  world,  he  was  cut  down 
in  the  prime  of  his  manhood. 

Henry  Payson  Ayres  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  September  26,  1841.  He  enlisted  as  private  in 
Company  A,  Seventy-seventh  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry, 

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MEMORIALS.  197 

August  5,  1862.  He  was  mustered  as  Corporal  in  same 
company,  September  2,  1862;  promoted  Sergeant  Major 
of  said  regiment,  January  14,  1863,  and  First  Lieutenant 
and  Adjutant  June  17,  1863.  He  was  mustered  out  of 
service  July  10,  1865. 

He  served  in  the  following  campaigns  and  battles: 
Chickasaw  Bluff,  Mississippi;  Arkansas  Post,  Arkansas; 
Port  Gibson,  Mississippi;  Champion  Hill,  Mississippi; 
Black  River  Bridge,  Mississippi;  siege,  capture  and 
assault  on  Vicksburg,  Mississippi;  Jackson,  Mississippi; 
Mansfield,  Louisiana;  Fort  Gaines,  Alabama;  Fort  Mor- 
gan, Alabama,  and  Spanish  Fort,  Alabama.  Returning 
from  the  war  he  settled  first  in  Galesburg,  Illinois,  and 
then  at  Peoria,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  banking 
business  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

A  brave  soldier  and  a  gallant  officer,  Lieutenant  Ayres 
adorned  alike  both  military  and  civil  life,  and  left  a  name 
singularly  free  from  reproach  of  any  kind.  Respecting 
himself  he  won  the  respect  of  others.  He  dared  to  do 
right  in  every  circumstance  of  life,  and  such  a  thing  as 
compromise  was  unknown  in  his  character. 

Such  a  life  as  that  of  Lieutenant  Ayres  needs  no 
eulogy.  It  speaks  for  itself  and  the  "Noblest  work  of 
God,  an  honest  man,"  sped  back  to  its  Creator  when  his 
spirit  took  its  flight. 

MARTIN  KINGMAN, 
JOHN  D.    McCLURE, 
ELIOT  CALLENDER, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM    MERRITT   LUFF. 

Captain  Twelfth  Illinois  Cavalry  and  Brevet  Major,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Fort  Mead,  South  Dakota,  October  g,  1894. 

t  A  flLLIAM  MERRITT  LUFF,  late  Captain  and  Brevet 
Mil  Major,  U.  S.  V.,  died  at  Fort  Mead,  South  Dakota, 
October  9,  1894.  He  was  born  March  19,  1839,  upon 
the  battlefield  of  Sacketts  Harbor.  That  historic  field 
was  his  first  play-ground.  As  he  gathered  relics  along 
the  line  followed  by  the  British  regulars  in  retreat  to  their 
fleet,  or  watched  the  parades  of  the  troops  then  stationed 
at  Madison  Barracks,  who  had  lately  formed  a  part  of 
the  Army  of  the  Second  Conquest  of  Mexico,  or  listened 
to  the  stories  told  by  those  soldiers,  it  is  fair  to  suppose 
that  he  laid  the  foundation  of  that  patriotism  and  mili- 
tary spirit  which  prompted  him  at  an  early  day  to  offer 

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his  services  to  his  country,  and  later  made  him  conspic- 
uous as  a  dashing  trooper  and  a  cool-headed,  courageous 
officer. 

Major  Luff  came  to  Chicago  in  1857,  soon  afterward 
commenced  the  study  of  the  law  with  Judge  Corydon 
Beckwith,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  April,  1861. 
Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  war,  he  was  appointed 
Adjutant  at  Camp  Butler,  which  had  been  established  at 
Springfield  for  the  organization  and  instruction  of  volun- 
teers. He  served  in  that  capacity  until  mustered  as 
Second  Lieutenant  of  the  Twelfth  Illinois  Cavalry,  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1862.  He  went  to  Virginia  with  his  regiment, 
and  at  Martinsburg,  on  September  7,  1862,  gallantly  led 
the  leading  platoon  of  his  regiment  in  a  charge  in  column 
upon  the  Winchester  turnpike  against  the  Blackhorse 
Cavalry.  A  paper  read  before  this  Commandery,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1888,  by  his  old  commander,  Major  General 
Julius  White,  stated:  "A  rapid  march  was  begun,  which, 
as  the  column  neared  the  advanced  picket  post  of  the 
enemy,  was  increased  to  a  gallop.  Striking  this  post  of 
the  enemy,  one  of  them  was  engaged  and  twice  wounded 
with  the  sabre  by  Lieutenant  Luff."  As  a  charge  of  the 
Twelfth  Illinois  Cavalry  in  line  that  same  day  has  been 
characterized  as  "  The  first  sabre  charge  of  the  war,"  it  is 
fair  to  suppose  that  Lieutenant  Luff  was  one  of  the  first 
to  use  the  sabre  effectively  in  the  war  for  the  suppression 
of  the  Rebellion. 

Major  Luff  was  mustered  as  a  First  Lieutenant  to 
date  from  November  i,  1862,  and  as  Captain  to  date 
from  February  25,  1864;  was  mustered  out  with  his  reg- 
iment February  27,  1865;  was  brevetted  Major  "for 
special  gallantry  at  Martinsburg,  Virginia,  September  7, 
1862,  and  at  Yellow  Bayou,  Louisiana,  May  6,  1864,  and 
for  gallant  and  meritorious  services  during  the  war." 


2OO  MEMORIALS. 

On  his  return  to  Chicago  he  again  entered  the  office 
of  Judge  Beckwith,  and  in  the  summer  of  1866  formed  a 
law  partnership  with  O.  K.  A.  Hutchinson,  which  was 
dissolved  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Hutchinson  in  June  of  this 
year.  At  that  time  the  firm  of  Hutchinson  &  Luff  was 
known  as  the  oldest  law  firm  in  Chicago.  In  January,  1 884, 
he  was  elected  a  Companion  of  this  Order  and  became  Our 
Major.  To  the  last  he  felt  a  deep  interest  in  the  Loyal 
Legion,  and  although  not  a  resident  of  the  city,  rarely 
failed  to  attend  its  meetings.  When  last  in  this  room, 
he  was  looking  so  poorly  that  many  were  impressed  with 
the  thought  that  his  presence  with  us  cost  him  a  great 
effort.  It  was  his  last  visit  to  any  assembly  except  his 
church,  of  which  he  was  a  constant  attendant  and  a 
consistent  member,  and  from  the  congregation  of  Grace 
Church  at  Oak  Park  he  will  be  missed  as  from  this  Com- 
mandery. 

He  was  married  in  1878  to  Louisa  Merritt  Hooker, 
eldest  daughter  of  the  late  James  Louis  Hooker,  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  Chicago,  who  had  returned  East. 
She  was  born  in  the  Major's  native  town,  and  together 
they  walked  in  childhood  and  youth,  and  kept  step  in 
middle  age.  She  was  a  woman  of  unusual  mental  attain- 
ments, warm  hearted  and  loyal,  qualities  that  made  her 
more  than  wife  to  him,  and  when  in  December,  1893, 
she  was  suddenly  called  by  the  Great  Commander,  whom 
they  both  loved  so  well  and  served  together  so  long,  his 
heart  went  with  her.  Only  a  few  months  later,  when  he 
who  had  been  his  business  associate  for  twenty-eight 
prosperous  years,  left  their  office  never  to  return,  and 
his  business  ties,  as  well  as  his  home  ties,  were  severed, 
his  friends  discovered  that  our  Major  was  fading  away. 
They  urged  him  to  leave  the  surroundings  that  reminded 
him  of  his  loss,  hoping  that  the  change  would  take  his 


MEMORIALS.  2OI 

thoughts,  in  a  measure,  from  memories  that  seemed  to 
be  crushing  him  with  their  "  weight  of  woe." 

We  can  understand  how,  under  these  circumstances, 
his  thoughts  turned  back  to  the  military  life  of  his  early 
manhood,  and  he  longed  to  be  once  more  amidst  the 
spirited  scenes  of  the  cavalry  camp,  so  with  waning 
strength,  he  went  to  visit  his  brother,  Captain  Edmund 
Luff,  Eighth  United  States  Cavalry,  stationed  at  Fort 
Mead.  Soon  after  his  arrival  there,  he  heard  taps  sound- 
ing for  the  last  time,  and  rested  in  his  last  bivouac.  We 
can  believe  that  the  final  summons  reached  him  mingled 
with  a  bugle  call  amid  surroundings  such  as  he  would 
have  chosen. 

In  his  life,  in  his  death,  our  Major  illustrated  the 
truth  of  the  lines  of  the  Wandering  Poet  of  America. 

"  Sleep,  soldier — still  in  honored  rest, 

Your  truth  and  valor  wearing, 
The  bravest  are  the  tenderest — 
The  loving  are  the  daring." 

JOSEPH  H.  WOOD, 
ELIJAH  S.   WATTS, 
JOHN  W.  PALMER, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  EDWIN  CLARKE,  JR. 

Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  October  6,  1894. 

COMPANION  William  Edwin  Clarke,  Jr.,  the  only  son 

V of  Companion  William  Edwin  Clarke,  Major  and 

Surgeon  of  the  Nineteenth  Michigan  Infantry,  U.  S.  V., 
was  born  in  Chicago,  May  7,  1867,  and  died  October  6, 
1894.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  prepared  himself  in  the  West  Division  High 
School  for  Amherst  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1889.  He  then  returned  to  Chicago  and  began  the  study 
of  law,  graduating  in  1891  from  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity Law  School.  The  year  following,  he  became  a 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  Pedrick,  Dawson  &  Clarke. 
He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Ashland  and  Lincoln 


MEMORIALS.  2O3 

Clubs,  a  member  also  of  the  Sunset  Club,  and  a  trustee 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church.  While  at  college 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Delta  Upsilon  college  fraternity, 
and  during  his  law  course  joined  the  legal  fraternity  of 
Phi  Delta  Phi.  Mr.  Clarke  became  a  Companion  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  in  March,  1893,  at  once  taking  an  active 
part  among  the  younger  members,  among  whom  he  made 
many  warm  friends.  He  came  of  patriotic  stock,  his 
great-grandfather,  Joseph  Baker,  having  been  a  surgeon 
on  General  Putnam's  staff  in  the  Revolution. 

Companion  Clarke  was  a  close  student  and  a  clear 
thinker,  and,  although  a  young  man,  he  had  already 
entered  upon  a  successful  career.  We  deplore  his  un- 
timely death  and  express  our  most  sincere  sympathy  with 
his  father,  Companion  Clarke,  and  his  family  in  their 
bereavement. 

BERNIS  W.   SHERMAN, 
CARLISLE  MASON, 
JOHN  T.   STOCKTON, 

Committee. 


JOSEPH   PHELPS  CARD. 

First  Lieutenant   One   Hundred  and  Third  Ohio  Infantry,    United 

States  Volunteers,     Died  at  Engleivood,  Illinois, 

October  22,  1894. 

3INCE  our  last  meeting,  among  the  honored  names 
transferred  from  the  active  list  of  this  Command- 
ery  to  rolls  "In  Memoriam  "  is  that  of  Lieutenant 
Joseph  P.  Card,  who  died  on  the  afternoon  of  October 
22,   1894,  at  his  home  in  Englewood,  surrounded  by  his 
family  and  friends. 

Lieutenant  Card  was  born  at  Painesville,  Ohio,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1837,  and  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  was 
a  resident  of  the  city  of  Cleveland,  where  he  enlisted  as 
a  private  soldier  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Third  Ohio 
Volunteer  Infantry,  August  15,  1862,  and  with  his  regi- 

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MEMORIALS. 

ment  at  once  took  the  field.  He  was  promoted  to  Ser- 
geant Major,  and  again  to  Second  Lieutenant  within  the 
year,  and  later  to  First  Lieutenant,  serving  as  ordnance 
officer  on  staff  duty  under  Generals  Carter  and  Sanders 
and  Colonels  Woolford  and  Shackleford  during  the  cam- 
paigns of  the  Army  of  the  Ohio. 

Lieutenant  Card  went  to  St.  Louis  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  where  he  engaged  in  business,  married,  and  made 
that  city  his  home  until  a  dozen  years  ago,  when  he  came 
to  Chicago  in  the  interest  of  the  Chicago  Tie  Preserving 
Company,  of  which  corporation  he  was  president  at  the 
time  of  his  death. 

Of  a  disposition  naturally  buoyant  and  happy,  he  was 
a  dear  comrade,  a  most  loving  and  devoted  husband  and 
father,  and  a  true  friend.  As  he  was  a  conscientious 
and  dutiful  soldier,  he  has  ever  been  an  honorable  and 
reliable  man  in  every  relation  of  life. 

We  desire  to  tender  to  the  sorrowing  ones  in  his 
stricken  home  our  profound  sympathy. 

HENRY  S.  PICKANDS, 
JAMES  M.   BALL, 
ALEXANDER  MARSHALL, 

Committee. 


BENJAMIN    BROWN   HAMILTON. 

Chaplain  Sixty-first  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Upper  Alton,  Illinois,  November  //, 


QENJAMIN  BROWN  HAMILTON  was  born  at  New 
H  j  Design,  Monroe  County,  Illinois,  February  4,  1822, 
•^  and  died  at  Upper  Alton,  Illinois,  November  11, 
1894.  His  early  life  was  uneventful;  he  taught  school  in 
Jersey  and  Monroe  Counties  from  1839  to  ^48,  working 
on  the  home  farm  during  the  summers  of  each  year.  He 
was  licensed  as  a  Baptist  preacher  in  1839,  and  served  as 
pastor  of  a  number  of  churches  in  Greene,  Scott  and  Jer- 
sey Counties.  He  was  married  in  1844  to  Miss  Mary  Ann 
Chandler,  who,  with  five  surviving  children,  mourns  his 
loss.  The  oldest  son  is  Dr.  John  B.  Hamilton,  of  Chi- 
cago, formerly  Surgeon  General  of  the  United  States  Ma- 
rine Hospital  service,  from  1879  to  1891. 

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MEMORIALS.  2O/ 

When  the  Civil  War  came  upon  us  the  patriotic  spirit 
of  our  late  Companion,  inspired  both  by  love  of  his  coun- 
try and  love  of  his  fellow  men,  impelled  him  to  offer  his 
services  in  defense  of  his  country's  flag,  and  although 
classed  among  those  who  "  fought  without  guns,"  yet  his 
labor  should  not  therefore  be  undervalued. 

He  entered  the  service  as  Chaplain  of  the  Sixty-first 
Illinois  Infantry,  U.  S.  V.,  at  Bolivar,  Tennessee,  Octo- 
ber 30,  1862,  and  served  with  his  regiment  in  various 
engagements — at  Chickasaw  Bayou,  at  Haines'  Bluff,  at 
Helena,  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  and  other  important 
places,  until  March  3,  1865,  when  his  resignation  was 
accepted. 

A  full  record  of  his  many  acts  of  kindness  to  his 
wounded  and  suffering  comrades  in  arms,  cannot  be  at- 
tempted in  this  brief  tribute  to  his  memory,  but  we  be- 
lieve that  the  reward  promised  to  him  who  gives  only  a 
cup  of  cold  water  in  the  name  of  his  Master,  will  be  his. 

He  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  intellectual 
ability,  of  strong  character,  and  his  voice  was  ever  raised 
in  behalf  of  truth  and  right. 

He  will  be  greatly  missed  in  the  large  circle  of  his 
friends  and  acquaintances,  and  his  life  is  an  example  well 
worthy  of  emulation. 

JAMES  W.   HUTCHINSON, 
JOHN  C.   NEELY, 
PETER  G.   GARDNER, 

Committee. 


ABRAHAM   FRANK    RISSER. 

Captain  One  Hundred  and  Sixth  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  November  23,  1894. 

(T  INCE  our  last   meeting  another  of  our  Comrades 
<j     and   Companions    has    fallen,    Abraham    Frank 
~~*        Risser.     He  died  of  heart  rupture  on  the  evening 
of  Friday,  November  23,   1894. 

Though  not  born  in  the  United  States,  he  was  brought 
here  by  his  parents  in  early  infancy,  and  had  no  recol- 
lection of  any  other  land  or  country.  It  was  to  him  the 
land  of  his  birth.  He  knew  no  other  and  loved  no  other. 
It  commanded  his  undivided  affection  and  loyalty. 

He  enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry,  and  was  mustered  into  military 
service  of  the  United  States  on  the  i/th  of  September, 

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1862,  as  First  Lieutenant  of  Company  B;  was  promoted 
to  the  Captaincy  of  that  cc/mpany  on  the  nth  of  March, 
1 864,  and  was  mustered  out  with  his  regiment  as  Captain 
on  the  1 2th  of  July,   1865.      His  first  service  was  during 
the  fall  and  winter  of  1862  in  the  neighborhood  of  Jack- 
son,   Bolivar    and    Brownsville,    Tennessee.      His    regi- 
ment   was   in   General    Lawlor's  brigade,    and    Captain 
Risser  served  on  his  staff  during  the  winter  of   1862  and 

1863.  In  May,    1863,  the  regiment  was  assigned  to  the 
First   Brigade,   Third   Division,  Sixteenth   Army  Corps, 
and  sent  from    Memphis  to  reinforce  the  Army  of  the 
Tennessee  before  Vicksburg.      It  reached  the  mouth  of 
the  Yazoo   River  June   3,   1863,  and  moved  on  to   Me- 
chanicsburg,  Mississippi,  thence  returned  to  Haines  Bluff 
and  held  Haines  and  Snyder's  Bluffs  during  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg.      After  the  surrender  of  that  place,  his  regi- 
ment was  sent  to  Helena,  and  from  there  to  Little  Rock, 
Arkansas,  and  was  under  the  command  of  General  Steele; 
and  Captain  Risser  served  in  that  department  as  Judge 
Advocate  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

At  the  time  of  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  resided 
in  Mt.  Pulaski,  Illinois,  and  upon  being  mustered  out 
with  his  regiment  at  its  close,  returned  to  that  place 
where  he  remained  until  about  1870,  when  he  removed 
to  Bloomington,  at  which  place  he  resided  until  1876, 
when  he  removed  to  Chicago,  and  here  he  resided  till 
his  death. 

In  all  the  relations  of  life  no  man  had  higher  stand- 
ards or  lived  more  closely  to  them.  In  his  domestic  life 
no  man  was  more  fortunate,  and  no  family  more  happy, 
nor  is  there  one  where  affection  and  devotion  were  more 
reciprocal. 

As  a  citizen  he  was  patriotic,  large-minded  and  public- 
spirited;  in  business,  far-sighted  and  comprehensive  in 


2IO  MEMORIALS. 

all  his  views,  just  and  honorable  in  all  relations  and 
transactions.  The  large  business  which  he  was  conduct- 
ing at  the  time  of  his  death— the  largest  of  the  kind  in 
the  United  States,  if  not  in  the  world — was  founded, 
built  up  and  established  by  him  and  made  what  it  is  by 
his  intelligence,  ability  and  energy.  All  this  was  accom- 
plished after  the  war,  and  in  less  than  thirty  years.  He 
began  with  no  inherited  or  given  wealth  or  means,  but 
with  only  the  capital  which  nature  gave  him.  And  it  is 
a  significant  tribute  to  his  ability,  justice,  fairness  and 
honor,  that  during  all  his  business  life,  the  latter  years 
of  which  he  had  in  his  employment  over  five  hundred 
men,  there  was  never  a  strike  among  his  employes,  nor 
the  least  friction  or  want  of  harmony  between  him  and 
them. 

As  a  soldier  his  country  had  none  braver,  and  none 
with  a  brighter  record  than  his.  As  a  Companion  and 
comrade, 

"  None  knew  him  but  to  love  him, 
None  named  him  but  to  praise." 

It  is  said  of  Napoleon's  soldiers  that  upon  the  roll  call 
the  survivors  answered  for  those  who  had  fallen,  when 
their  names  were  called,  "Dead  on  the  field  of  honor." 
At  our  roll  call  to-night  such  must  be  our  sad  answer  for 
our  Comrade  and  Companion.  Though  he  did  not  fall 
in  the  shock  of  battle,  he  lies  dead  on  the  field  of  honor. 
He  had  given  his  service  and  offered  his  life,  to  save  that 
of  his  country  when  imperilled,  and  when  peace  was  re- 
stored, he  as  unreservedly  and  faithfully  discharged  every 
duty  devolving  upon  him  as  a  citizen  and  in  every  station 
of  life.  He  avoided  no  responsibility,  and  left  no  duty 
undone.  He  died  as  he  lived,  on  the  field  of  honor. 

His  country  has  lost  in  his  death  a  brave  soldier  and 
an  influential  and  useful  citizen;  his  family  an  affection- 


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ate  and  devoted  husband  and  father,  and  this  Command- 
ery  an  esteemed  and  honored  member.  As  we  mourn 
our  own  loss  we  tender  to  his  family  our  heartfelt 
sympathy. 

MYRON  H.   BEACH, 
ORVILLE  W.   BALLARD, 
JAMES  R.   WILLETT, 

Committee, 


PHILIP  SIDNEY  POST. 

Colonel  Fifty-ninth  Illinois  Infantry  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General, 
United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia,  January  6, 


GENERAL  Philip  Sidney  Post  was  born  in  Florida, 
Orange  County,    New  York,    on  March   19,   1833. 
On  his  father's  side  he  was  of  Dutch  extraction;  on 
his  mother's  of  English,   being    sixth    in    descent    from 
Robert  Coe,  who  came  to  America  in    1634.      He  came 
of  a  brave  and  patriotic  stock.      His  father,  General  Peter 
Schuyler  Post,  served  in  the  War  in    1812;  and  both  his 
grandfather  and  great-grandfather  fought  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War. 

Philip  Sidney  Post  graduated  at  Union  College, 
Schenectady,  New  York,  in  1855;  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1856.  He  began  the  practice  of 


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law  in  Kansas,  where  he  also  established  and  edited  a 
newspaper,  and  soon  took  a  prominent  part  in  affairs. 

At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  Philip  Sidney 
Post  promptly  volunteered  and  was  made  Second  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Fifty-ninth  Illinois  Infantry.  His  promotion 
was  rapid,  and  after  the  first  Missouri  campaign  he  was 
appointed  Major  and  took  command  of  the  regiment.  At 
the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  Arkansas,  March  7,  1862,  while 
leading  his  men,  he  received  a  terrible  gunshot  wound, 
which  splintered  the  bones  of  the  arm  and  penetrated 
through  the  body  nine  inches.  While  in  the  hospital  at 
St.  Louis  he  was  commissioned  Colonel  for  gallantry  at 
Pea  Ridge,  and  started  for  the  field  before  he  was  able  to 
mount  his  horse  without  assistance.  Hurrying  forward 
to  Corinth,  he  was  given  command  of  a  brigade.  From 
May,  1862,  to  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  constantly  at 
the  front.  In  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  he  com- 
manded the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Twentieth 
Army  Corps  and  under  General  Rosecrans  began  the 
battle  of  Stone's  River. 

After  this  battle,  being  a  thorough  tactician,  he  was 
appointed  on  a  commission  to  examine  the  qualifications 
of  officers  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland.  He  was  a 
careful  student  of  military  history  and  his  brigade  drills 
at  Nashville  in  1862  attracted  much  attention. 

During  the  Atlanta  campaign  he  was  transferred  to 
the  Second  Brigade,  Third  Division,  Fourth  Army  Corps, 
and  took  command  of  the  division  when  General  Wood 
was  wounded  at  Lovejoy  Station.  He  returned  with  it 
from  Atlanta  to  Tennessee,  and  assisted  in  holding  in 
check  a  large  Confederate  force  until  General  Thomas 
collected  the  scattered  Union  forces,  and  dealt  a  decisive 
blow  to  the  Confederacy  at  Nashville. 

At  the  opening  of  the  battle  of  Nashville,  on  the  fif- 


214  MEMORIALS. 

teenth  day  of  December,  1864,  Colonel  Post  attacked 
Montgomery  Hill,  the  most  advanced  fortification  of  the 
enemy,  and  carried  it  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet,  thus, 
to  quote  the  language  of  General  Thomas,  "taking  the 
initiative  and  inciting  the  whole  army  to  the  brilliant 
deeds  of  the  day."  In  the  afternoon  he  led  the  attack 
on  the  second  line  of  entrenchments  with  equal  success. 
The  next  day  he  led  the  assault  on  Overton's  Hill,  the 
last  stronghold  of  the  enemy,  the  capture  of  which  re- 
sulted in  the  complete  discomfiture  of  the  entire  Con- 
federate Army.  Colonel  Post  was  shot  down  at  the  head 
of  his  column  almost  upon  the  breastworks  of  the  enemy, 
and  was  supposed  to  be  fatally  wounded.  He  was  pro- 
moted on  the  same  day  Brigadier  General  by  brevet,  and 
afterwards  received  for  gallantry  at  Nashville  a  medal  of 
honor  from  Congress.  For  four  months  he  could  not 
leave  his  bed,  yet  in  July,  1865,  he  again  reported  for 
duty.  He  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  Western 
District  of  Texas,  with  headquarters  at  San  Antonio, 
sixteen  regiments  being  stationed  at  that  point. 

General  Post  remained  here  until  1866,  when  the 
withdrawal  of  the  French  from  Mexico  removed  all 
danger  of  military  complications  on  that  frontier.  He 
was  earnestly  recommended  by  his  commanding  officers 
for  the  appointment  of  Colonel  in  the  Regular  Army,  and 
unknown  to  him,  these  recommendations  were  filed  in 
the  War  Department.  However,  peace  having  been  re- 
established, he  did  not  desire  to  remain  longer  in  the 
military  service. 

In  1866  General  Post  was  appointed  Consul  to  Vienna, 
Austria.  In  1874  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of 
Consul-General  for  Austria-Hungary,  and  resigned  in 
1879.  Shortly  before  going  abroad  he  married  on  May 
24,  1866,  Miss  Cornelia  A.  Post,  only  daughter  of  Honor- 


MEMORIALS. 

able  W.  T.  Post  of  Elmira,  New  York,  and  their  children 
Harriette  Helene,  Philip  Sidney,  Jr.,  and  William  Schuy- 
ler  were  born  in  Vienna.  General  Post's  reports  upon 
beet  sugar,  Austrian  patent  laws,  and  European  railways 
have  frequently  been  quoted  by  statistical  writers.  On 
his  return  to  the  United  States  he  came  to  Galesburg, 
Illinois,  where  he  has  since  resided. 

From  1882  to  1886  General  Post  was  member-at- 
large  of  the  Illinois  Republican  State  Central  Committee, 
and  in  1886  was  chosen  Commander  of  the  Department 
of  Illinois,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  In  the  fall  of 
the  same  year,  he  was  elected  to  Congress  from  the 
Tenth  District  of  Illinois  and  served  eight  years.  He 
was  an  untiring,  energetic,  efficient  representative  of  the 
people,  and  secured  for  his  district  a  long  list  of  benefits. 
He  had  already  been  re-elected  by  an  overwhelming 
majority  to  succeed  himself  in  the  Fifty-fourth  Congress, 
when  he  died  suddenly  of  heart  failure  on  January  6, 
1895,  at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia. 

The  extent  of  General  Post's  popularity  was  shown 
at  Galesburg  on  the  day  of  the  funeral,  when  a  public 
demonstration,  such  as  had  never  before  been  seen  in 
Central  Illinois,  did  honor  to  his  memory. 

General  Post's  career  has  been  brilliant  as  a  patriot, 
a  diplomat,  a  statesman.  In  the  words  of  one  of  his 
fellow  citizens,  "He  was  a  soldier  among  soldiers,  a 
citizen  among  citizens,  a  man  among  men.  He  was  a 
man  of  high  motives,  sound  judgment,  and  sterling  in- 
tegrity. Only  in  his  death  have  many  of  us  realized  the 
greatness  of  our  loss,  the  faithfulness  of  his  service,  the 
smallness  of  his  reward." 

Many  tributes  of  a  similar  character  have  been  paid 
to  General  Post,  and  we  quote  from  the  editorial  of  a 
newspaper  opposed  to  him  on  all  public  issues: 


2l6  MEMORIALS. 

"As  a  man  we  knew  him  thoroughly,  and  now  that 
he  is  dead  we  confess  we  never  knew  a  man  possessed  of 
a  higher  and  keener  sense  of  honor.  He  was  a  man  of 
noble  instincts  and  purest  actions — a  man  who  always 
dared  to  do  right." 

ARTHUR  A.  SMITH, 
LEMUEL  L.  SCOTT, 
ASA  A.  MATTESON, 

Committee. 


ISRAEL  NEWTON  STILES. 

Colonel  Sixty-third  Indiana  Infantry  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 

January  17,  1895. 

TSRAEL  NEWTON  STILES  was  bom  July  16,  1833, 

in  the  town  of  Suffield,  Connecticut,  where  he  passed 
the  earlier  part  of  his  life.  From  an  ancestry  of  New 
England  farmers  he  had  inherited  the  personal  qualities 
of  courage  and  a  conscientious  sense  of  duty  in  all  the 
relations  of  life.  He  was  a  young  man  when  he  removed 
to  Indiana,  and  before  reaching  his  twenty-first  year  had 
begun  the  work  of  preparation  for  his  chosen  vocation, 
the  law.  As  he  had  been  a  student  in  Connecticut,  he  re- 
mained, and  with  increasing  diligence,  a  student  in  In- 
diana. In  due  time  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  that 
state  under  the  guidance  of  wise  and  friendly  preceptors. 

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His  active  mind  and  earnest  belief  in  the  right  side  of 
questions,  as  he  understood  the  right,  were  made  evident 
at  an  early  day  to  the  people  of  LaFayette,  where  he  had 
taken  up  his  abode.  He  was  frank  and  outspoken  upon 
every  occasion  of  public  moment  as  it  arose.  It  was  en- 
tirely natural  therefore  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war  for  the 
Union  that  the  young  lawyer  and  legislator  should  take 
a  deep  concern  in  the  issues  of  the  approaching  conflict. 

Laying  aside  all  his  plans  for  civic  advancement,  he 
threw  himself  into  the  movement  for  national  defense 
with  his  whole  heart  and  with  the  most  unselfish  devo- 
tion. He  enlisted  in  the  Twentieth  Indiana  Infantry  at 
LaFayette,  and  was  commissioned  as  First  Lieutenant 
and  Adjutant  of  his  regiment,  July  22,  1861.  He  was 
promoted  Major  Sixty-third  Indiana  Infantry  August  28, 
1862;  Lieutenant  Colonel  June  18,  1863,  and  Colonel 
January  22,  1864.  He  was  brevetted  Brigadier  General 
January  31,  1865,  and  mustered  out  and  honorably  dis- 
charged June  23,  1865,  by  reason  of  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  served  in  1862  in  Virginia,  and  afterwards  in  the 
West  at  Knoxville;  in  the  Atlanta  Campaign,  and  under 
General  George  H.  Thomas  at  Franklin  and  Nashville. 
In  much  of  this  service  General  Stiles  was  identified  with 
the  Twenty-third  Army  Corps  in  which  he  commanded 
a  brigade  as  early  as  August  9,  1864.  At  Franklin, 
November  30,  1864,  he  was  in  command  of  the  Third 
Brigade  of  the  Third  Division  of  his  Corps,  and  was  as- 
signed to  the  left  of  the  Union  position,  where  the 
brigade  resisted  the  attack  of  the  enemy  with  persistent 
valor  and  entire  success.  He  was  again  in  action  at  the 
battle  of  Nashville,  where  his  brigade,  although  not  as 
actively  engaged  as  at  Franklin,  nevertheless  performed 
well  the  part  required  of  it.  In  February,  1865,  the 
Twenty-third  Corps  having  been  ordered  from  Eastport, 


MEMORIALS. 

Tennessee,  to  Alexandria,  Virginia,  and  thence  to  Fort 
Fisher,  General  Stiles  was  assigned  to  the  command  of 
the  First  Brigade  of  the  First  (Brigadier  General  Thomas 
H.  Ruger's)  Division  of  that  Corps.  In  the  reports  of 
his  superiors  in  these  various  campaigns  he  was  frequently 
commended  for  brave  and  meritorious  conduct  in  the 
performance  of  his  military  duty. 

Upon  the  official  record  and  the  testimony  of  his  fel- 
low soldiers  who  served  at  his  side,  his  name  and  fame 
as  a  brave  and  intelligent  officer  are  established  beyond 
all  question. 

It  was  for  this  reason,  as  well  as  for  his  high  char- 
acter as  a  citizen  and  his  engaging  personal  qualities, 
that  the  Commandery  gave  a  hearty  welcome  to  General 
Stiles  when  he  applied  for  admission.  He  was  elected 
a  member,  November  5,  1879;  to  the  Council,  August 
30,  1880;  Junior  Vice-Commander,  May  6,  1885;  Senior 
Vice-Commander,  May  5,  1886;  Commander,  May  12, 
1887. 

The  useful  and  honorable  position  occupied  by 
General  Stiles  as  a  member  of  the  bar  of  our  city  from 
the  time  he  came  to  Chicago,  not  long  after  the  close  of 
the  war,  until  his  health  entirely  failed,  is  known  to  us  all. 

His  professional  associations  were  formed  with  men 
able  and  trustworthy  like  himself,  and  his  professional 
conduct  and  methods  were  fair,  direct  and  based  upon 
high  principle.  It  can  be  said  that  he  was  constant  to 
the  vocation  of  his  early  manhood,  for  the  only  civil  office 
held  by  him  while  among  us,  that  of  attorney  for  our 
city,  was  one  which  called  for  counsel  and  the  advocacy 
of  a  client's  rights. 

Up  to  the  time  of  his  last  illness,  a  lingering  and  dis- 
tressing one,  General  Stiles  had  been  one  of  the  most 
useful  and  conspicuous  of  our  members.  Not  that  only; 


22O  MEMORIALS. 

he  was  among  those  to  whom  we  were  always  especially 
glad  to  give  our  affection  and  respect.  We  all  remem- 
ber the  years  in  which  we  enjoyed  his  presence  as  a  Com- 
panion and  officer  of  this  body.  No  one  of  its  members 
was  readier  to  do  his  part,  as  well  in  the  serious  busi- 
ness of  the  meeting  as  in  the  hour  of  companionship  that 
followed  it.  Time  went  on;  his  health  became  seriously 
impaired,  and  his  eyesight  rapidly  failed  him.  Yet  not 
even  the  darkening  shadows  that  gathered  round  him, 
and  at  last  excluded  the  lifelong  rays  of  the  sun,  could 
extinguish  the  light  of  friendship  and  duty  that  burned 
perpetually  within.  Against  the  odds  of  a  well  nigh  dis- 
abling infirmity  he  struggled  with  an  inflexible  courage 
to  maintain  his  place  in  the  ranks  of  busy  men.  Many 
a  time  have  we  seen  him  during  that  period  of  affliction 
slowly  moving  to  his  seat  as  a  member  of  this  Com- 
mandery,  because  he  still  desired  to  meet  us,  though  he 
could  no  longer  see  our  faces.  It  was  his  wish  and 
seemed  to  be  his  consolation  to  clasp  the  hands  and  re- 
spond to  the  voices  of  his  friends. 

General  Stiles  died  at  his  residence  in  this  city  on 
Thursday,  January  17,  1895.  Many  members  of  this 
Commandery  were  present  at  the  simple  funeral  service 
held  at  his  house  on  the  following  Saturday.  As  we  re- 
call the  life  story  of  this  brave  soldier,  this  public-spirited 
citizen,  this  dutiful  and  distinguished  man,  we  feel  more 
and  more  the  greatness  of  the  loss  to  his  family,  to  our- 
selves, and  to  the  state,  resulting  from  his  death. 

In  concluding  this  memorial  we  desire  to  offer  to  the 
family  and  to  the  many  friends  of  our  departed  Com- 
panion our  condolence  and  sympathy. 

ARTHUR  C.   DUCAT, 
GEORGE  L.    PADDOCK, 
RICHARD  S.   TUTHILL, 

Committee. 


JAMES  PORTER  MARTIN. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  and  Assistant  Adjutant   General,    United  States 
Army.     Died  at   Chicago,  Illinois,  February  ig,  1895. 

I  HE  committee  appointed  to  prepare  a  tribute  of  re- 
i^     spect  to  the  memory  of  our  late  Companion,  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  James  Porter  Martin,  Assistant  Adjutant 
General  United  States  Army,  respectfully  submit  the  fol- 
lowing: 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Martin  was  born  in  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  September  27,  1836,  and  entered  the  Military 
Academy  July  I,  1855,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
and  appointed  Brevet  Second  Lieutenant,  Sixth  Infantry, 
July  i,  1860.  He  was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant, 
Seventh  Infantry,  December  20,  1860,  First  Lieuten- 
ant, May  14,  1861,  and  Captain,  January  2,  1863.  He 


MEMORIALS. 

was  appointed  Major  and  Assistant  Adjutant  General, 
April  10,  1869,  and  Lieutenant  Colonel,  February  28, 
1887. 

During  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he  served  with  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  took  part  in  the  Virginia 
Peninsular  Campaign  from  March  to  August,  1862,  being 
engaged  in  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  battle  of  Williams- 
burg,  battle  of  Games'  Mill  and  the  battle  of  Malvern 
Hill.  He  was  in  the  Maryland  Campaign  (Army  of  the 
Potomac),  1862,  and  performed  duty  as  Acting  Aid-de- 
Camp  to  Major  General  McClellan,  commanding  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  at  the  battle  of  South  Mountain, 
September  14,  1862,  and  at  the  battle  of  Antietam,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1862.  He  acted  as  Aid-de-Camp  to  Major 
General  Heintzelman,  commanding  the  Department  of 
Washington  from  November,  1862,  to  February,  1863. 
He  was  in  command  of  his  company  in  the  Pennsylvania 
Campaign  in  1863,  being  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Gettys- 
burg, July  2,  1863,  and  in  the  pursuit  of  the  enemy  to 
Warrenton,  Virginia.  He  served  as  Acting  Assistant 
Adjutant  General  of  the  Second  Division,  Fifth  Corps 
(Army  of  the  Potomac),  from  August,  1863,  to  Febru- 
ary, 1864,  being  engaged  in  the  combat  of  Rappahan- 
nock  Station,  November  7,  1863,  and  the  Mine  Run 
operations  November  26  to  December  3,  1863. 

He  was  brevetted  Major,  July  2,  1863,  for  gallant 
and  meritorious  services  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  and 
Lieutenant  Colonel  July  22,  1865,  for  faithful  and  mer- 
itorious services  during  the  war.  After  the  close  of  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion  he  served  on  the  Staff  of  Major 
General  Meade  and  assisted  in  the  difficult  and  delicate 
duties  of  the  period  of  reconstruction. 

This  brief  record  covers  an  active  life  of  thirty-five 
years  as  an  officer  during  a  period  when  the  Nation's  life 


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was  maintained  only  through  the  most  arduous  and  pa- 
triotic services  of  her  sons. 

Colonel  Martin's  fidelity  to  duty  and  meritorious 
service  are  attested  by  the  brevets  and  the  especial  pre- 
ferment that  he  received;  his  selection  for  staff  duty  by 
several  officers,  including  two  of  the  most  distinguished 
commanders  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  are  standing 
proof  of  the  high  estimation  in  which  he  was  held  by 
his  military  superiors  who  were  cognizant  of  his  services. 

Your  committee,  as  comrades  of  Colonel  Martin  in 
his  later  life,  bear  testimony  to  the  cheerfulness  and  gen- 
erosity of  his  disposition  and  to  his  uniform  courtesy  in 
all  relations  official  and  personal.  Smitten  by  a  disease 
whose  fatal  ending  he  anticipated  even  before  the  most 
careful  and  skillful  examination  detected  occasion  for 
such  an  ending,  he  faced  death  with  soldierly  constancy, 
and  he  died  at  his  post  of  duty  in  this  city,  Tuesday, 
February  19,  1895,  °f  malignant  endocarditis.  This 
disease,  we  are  told  by  his  physicians,  is  of  rare  occur- 
rence, and  in  his  case  without  ascertainable  cause  of 
origin.  Had  it  not  been  for  the  stealthy  approach  of 
death  through  such  unfrequented  portals,  our  Companion 
had  promise  of  many  more  years  of  life. 

Your  committee,  voicing  the  feeling  of  all  of  Colonel 
Martin's  associates,  desire  to  enter  on  the  records  of  the 
Loyal  Legion,  that  brotherhood  that  holds  the  dead 
soldier's  services  in  special  honor,  the  expression  of  sin- 
cerest  sympathy  with  the  bereaved  family  of  our  late 
Companion. 

JUDSON    D.     BlNGHAM, 

GEORGE  W.   BAIRD, 
STEPHEN  W.  GROESBECK, 

Committee. 


DAVID  RAMSAY  CLENDENIN. 

Colonel  {Retired},    United   States  Army,  Brevet  Brigadier  General, 

United  States   Volunteers.     Died  at  Oneida, 

Illinois,  March  5,  1895. 

I  HAT   merciless  and   unsparing   arbiter   of  the    final 

V     destiny  of  mankind  has  again  invaded  our  ranks  and 

removed  to  the  mystic  shore  a  Companion  whose  heroic 

deeds   and   blameless   life  rightfully  entitled  him  to  an 

exalted  niche  in  the  temple  of  fame. 

David  Ramsay  Clendenin  was  born  in  Little  Britain, 
Lancaster  County,  Pennsylvania,  June  24,  1830,  and  at 
Oneida,  Knox  County,  Illinois,  March  5,  1895,  ne  passed 
to  his  eternal  home.  He  came  to  Lyndon,  Whiteside 
County,  this  State,  at  the  age  of  twenty  years,  and  com- 
pleted his  education  at  Knox  College,  in  Galesburg. 
When  the  Civil  War  commenced  he  was  in  Washington, 

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MEMORIALS.  225 

D.  C.,  a  member  of  the  "Clay  Guards,"  a  local  volunteer 
organization  formed  to  protect  the  Government  buildings, 
and  which  patrolled  the  city  at  night  and  aided  in  pre- 
venting it  from  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  rebels. 

Receiving  authority  to  recruit  a  company  for  General 
Farnsworth's  regiment,  afterwards  known  as  the  Eighth 
Illinois  Cavalry,  he  came  to  Morrison,  Illinois,  and 
assisted  in  recruiting  Company  C,  and  upon  the  organ- 
ization of  the  regiment  at  St.  Charles  was  elected  Senior 
Major,  September  18,  1861.  Colonel  Clendenin  served 
gallantly  through  the  war  with  this  organization,  one  of 
the  most  renowned  in  the  Eastern  army,  which  followed 
the  fortunes  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  for  four  long 
years.  He  was  promoted  to  Lieutenant  Colonel  Decem- 
ber 5,  1862,  was  brevetted  Colonel  February  20,  1865, 
and  Brigadier  General  of  Volunteers  July  11,  1865,  for 
"  meritorious  services."  No  duty  was  too  arduous  and 
no  service  too  perilous  for  him  to  undertake,  among  the 
most  conspicuous  being  his  regiment's  part  in  the  gallant 
and  desperate  defense  of  Washington  against  the  raid 
made  for  its  capture  by  General  Jubal  Early  in  1864, 
when  in  a  hand-to-hand  fight  with  the  famous  Seven- 
teenth Virginia  he  plucked  its  battle-flag  from  the  color 
bearer  with  his  own  hand.  In  his  report  of  this  memo- 
rable contest  General  Lew  Wallace  says  of  Colonel 
Clendenin:  "As  brave  a  cavalry  soldier  as  ever  mounted 
a  horse. "  General  Clendenin  was  a  member  of  the 
Military  Commission  which  tried  and  convicted  the 
assassins  of  President  Lincoln,  in  1865.  He  was  mus- 
tered out  of  the  volunteer  service  July  17,  1865,  and  re- 
turned to  Morrison,  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  for  a  year 
in  mercantile  pursuits,  but  business  life  not  proving  con- 
genial to  his  tastes  he  sought  a  position  in  the  Regular 
Army,  which  he  easily  secured. 


226  MEMORIALS. 

He  was  appointed  Major  of  the  Eighth  Cavalry, 
United  States  Army,  January  22,  1867,  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Third  Cavalry 
November  i,  1882,  became  Colonel  of  the  Second  Cav- 
alry October  29,  1888,  and  was  retired  April  20,  1891. 

During  his  term  of  service  in  the  Regular  Army  he 
was  stationed  in  Arizona,  New  Mexico,  Texas,  at  Fort 
Walla  Walla,  Washington,  and  was  also  on  detached 
service  in  San  Francisco  at  different  periods.  The 
frontier  service  was  at  times  subject  to  extreme  hard- 
ships and  deprivations  which  were  met  by  General  Clen- 
denin  with  that  stoic  demeanor  which  had  gained  for 
him  an  enviable  reputation  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 
Under  its  strenuous  duties  his  once  strong  and  robust 
frame  gave  way,  and  after  his  retirement  he  spent  four 
years  a  very  patient  invalid  at  his  home  in  Oneida,  Illi- 
nois, receiving  the  untiring  care  and  devotion  of  a  loving 
and  faithful  wife  in  the  long  illness  that  preceded  his 
demise.  His  wife  and  two  sons,  Claude  F.  Clendenin 
of  New  York  City,  and  Dr.  Paul  Clendenin  of  the  Med- 
ical Corps  of  the  United  States  Army,  are  the  survivors 
of  his  family.  Major  Frank  Clendenin  of  Joliet,  and 
General  William  Clendenin  of  Moline,  are  his  nephews. 

A  patriot,  whose  entire  manhood,  with  a  very  brief  ex- 
ception, was  given  to  the  service  of  his  country  in  its  mili- 
tary branch,  who  followed  the  revered  emblem  of  our  Na- 
tion's supremacy  through  the  ever-recurring  dangers  and 
vicissitudes  of  angry  and  hotly  contested  engagements, 
a  man  whose  bravery  evoked  the  unstinted  praise  and 
admiration  of  his  comrades,  a  commander  well  versed 
in  tact  and  strategy,  he  goes  to  his  final  reward  with  all 
of  life's  battles  well  fought  and  the  victory  fully  won. 
Born  and  reared  within  the  shadow  of  the  immortal  bell 
that  proclaimed  liberty  to  all  mankind,  and  educated  in 


MEMORIALS.  227 

surroundings  of  intense  loyalty  to  flag  and  country,  his 
later  life  accorded  with  his  earlier,  and  his  gallant  record 
is  one  in  which  this  Commandery  may  take  a  just  pride. 
His  ear  is  deaf  to  the  bugle's  shrill  call  "  to  arms;  "  his 
once  good  and  strong  right  arm  will  no  more  raise  the 
trusty  blade  in  defense  of  truth,  honor,  justice  and 
human  equality;  his  body  lies  moldering  with  its  com- 
mon clay,  but  his  spirit  freed  from  mortal  thralldom 
goes  marching  on  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  well-earned  and 
blissful  eternity.  He  has  joined  that  noble  band  of 
whom  it  is  said: 

"On  Fame's  eternal  camping  ground 

Their  snowy  tents  are  spread, 
And  glory  guards  with  solemn  round 

The  bivouac  of  the  dead." 

CHARLES  BENT, 
WILBUR  G.   BENTLEY, 
CHRISTIAN  E.   LANSTRUM, 

Committee. 


JOHN  JOSEPH  RAVENSCROFT  PATRICK. 

Captain  One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Belleville,  Illinois,  April  10,  1895. 

I  HE  committee  appointed  to  prepare  a  tribute  of  re- 
i.     spect  to  the  memory  of  our  late  Companion,  Cap- 
tain John  Joseph  Ravenscroft  Patrick,  who  died  at  Belle- 
ville, Illinois,  April  10,   1895,  respectfully  submit  the  fol- 
lowing: 

Captain  Patrick  was  born  at  Liverpool,  England, 
February  6,  1825,  and  came  to  this  country  with  his 
parents  when  fourteen  years  of  age,  settling  first  at  New 
Orleans,  moving  from  there  to  Louisville,  Kentucky; 
thence  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  his  father  died  in  the 
year  1847. 

Soon  after  this,  young  Patrick  decided  to  follow  in 

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the  footsteps  of  his  father  and  went  to  St.  Louis  to  com- 
mence the  study  of  medicine,  taking  a  course  of  lectures 
in  the  McDowell  Medical  College  of  that  city.  Having, 
however,  in  earlier  years,  served  some  time  as  apprentice 
to  the  goldsmith's  trade,  and  believing  that  his  mechani- 
cal ability  would  be  of  great  service  to  him  in  the  pro- 
fession of  dentistry,  he  turned  his  attention  in  this  direc- 
tion and  graduated  from  the  Missouri  Dental  College  at 
St.  Louis,  Missouri.  His  professional  career  and  suc- 
cess proved  the  wisdom  of  his  final  choice. 

He  was  twice  married;  the  first  time  at  Lebanon, 
Missouri,  in  1853,  to  Miss  Jane  Johnston,  whose  death 
occurred  about  five  years  ago;  his  second  wife,  who  sur- 
vives him,  having  been  Miss  Anna  Rischar,  his  former 
secretary.  He  settled  in  Belleville,  Illinois,  and  lived 
there  until  the  time  of  his  death.  Dr.  Patrick  was  a  close 
student  and  a  lover  of  science. 

Since  the  war  he  spent  much  time  in  archaeological 
researches  and  built  for  himself  a  world-wide  reputation. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  engaged  in  preparing  a 
work  upon  "Prehistoric  Skulls,"  and  was  the  author  of 
many  monographs  and  pamphlets  well  known  to  the  sci- 
entific world.  He  had  been  a  teacher  in  the  Missouri 
Dental  College  and  also  in  the  Dental  Department  of  the 
State  University  of  Iowa. 

Although  born  in  a  foreign  country,  when  his  adopted 
country  became  involved  in  a  war  threatening  its  exist- 
ence, he  entered  the  service  with  Company  G,  One  Hun- 
dred and  Thirtieth  Regiment,  Illinois  Infantry,  and  there 
served  from  its  muster  until  January,  1864.  January  23, 
1863,  he  was  promoted  Captain,  which  position  he  held 
until  his  resignation  on  account  of  the  consolidation  of 
his  regiment  with  the  Seventy-seventh  Illinois,  and  his 
failing  health.  He  participated  in  the  Vicksburg  Cam- 


23O  MEMORIALS. 

paign,  from  Milliken's  Bend  to  its  close;  was  in  the  bat- 
tles of  Port  Gibson,  Champion  Hills,  Black  River  Bridge, 
and  in  the  charges  of  May  iQth  and  22d. 

After  the  surrender  of  Vicksburg,  his  regiment  assist- 
ed in  the  ten-day  siege  of  Jackson,  Mississippi,  after 
which  the  regiment  was  transferred  to  the  Department 
of  the  Gulf  under  General  Banks,  taking  part  in  the  cam- 
paigns of  Western  Louisiana,  and  under  General  Ran- 
som, in  his  Texas  campaign.  He  left  the  service  at  Pass 
Cavallo,  on  the  coast  of  that  State.  He  became  a  mem- 
ber of  this  Commandery  January  8,  1891,  and  leaves  a 
large  circle  of  friends  to  mourn  his  death. 

To  his  bereaved  family  we  offer  our  heartfelt  sym- 
pathy. 

EDGAR  D.   SWAIN, 
CHARLES  R.   E.   KOCH, 
CHARLES  MATTESON, 

Committee. 


FRANK  M.  THOMSON. 

First  Lieutenant  Fourteenth  New  York  Heavy  Artillery,  United  States 
Volunteers.      Died  at  Nczv  York,  N.  Y.,  April  20,  1895. 

O  ORN  at  La  Fargeville,  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y. ,  May 
*Vl      13,  1845.     Died  at  New  York  City,  April  20,  1895. 
"After  life's  fitful  fever,  he  sleeps  well." 

Too  often  are  we  reminded  of  the  declining  years,  and 
too  frequent  are  becoming  the  grim  summons  of  Him 
who  compasseth  all  earthly  ills.  While  it  is  a  mournful 
pleasure  to  speak  well  of  the  dead,  the  heart  of  man  is 
prone  to  fill  with  saddened  tenderness  for  the  loved  ones 
who  are  bereaved. 

In  the  bivouac  of  eternal  sleep,  our  friend  and  Com- 
panion, Lieutenant  Frank  M.  Thomson,  has  lain  him 
down  to  rise  no  more  to  earthly  call;  and  his  fellow 

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232  MEMORIALS. 

members  and  Companions  of  the  Illinois  Commandery 
of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  join  deeply 
and  earnestly  in  their  sorrow  and  grief  that  one  so  dearly 
respected  and  esteemed  will  hold  no  converse  here  below. 

Companion  Thomson  was  a  brave,  earnest  and  up- 
right man,  generous  to  a  fault,  and  full  of  that  human 
magnetism  which  drew  around  him  many  friends  who 
will  miss  his  genial  handshake  and  his  kindly  sympathy. 
He  was  honest,  faithful,  capable  and  popular,  a  man  of 
unquestioned  ability  and  unblemished  reputation;  large- 
hearted,  faithful  and  true.  He  sought  only  the  true  friend- 
ship of  man  and  the  honest  love  of  woman ;  and  he  was  ever 
staunch  and  loyal  to  his  former  companions  in  arms. 

Entering  into  the  Federal  service  of  the  Union  as  a 
private  in  the  Tenth  New  York  Heavy  Artillery,  he  rose 
from  the  ranks  for  conspicuous  and  meritorious  bravery 
and  proven  efficiency  upon  the  field  of  battle,  to  become 
successively  Second  Lieutenant  and  finally  First  Lieu- 
tenant of  the  Fouteenth  New  York  Heavy  Artillery.  With 
the  Ninth  Army  Corps  he  participated  in  all  the  hot  and 
dreadful  carnage  of  every  important  engagement  in  the 
campaign,  from  the  Wilderness  to  Appomattox. 

As  a  business  man,  Mr.  Thompson  was  punctilious  in 
his  dealings,  truthful,  honorable  and  honest  in  his  speech, 
and  prompt  in  the  discharge  of  money  obligations.  By 
prudence,  economy  and  rigid  care,  he  succeeded  in  gain- 
ing a  competency  and  for  a  time  lived  comfortably  and 
contentedly  with  his  beloved  family.  But  a  few  years  ago 
he  engaged  in  a  business  bright  with  promises  and  the 
highest  hopes  of  success,  only  to  meet  with  that  disap- 
pointment which  is  of  such  common  occurrence  in  these 
times.  In  this  enterprise  he  lost  his  all,  and  we  fear  the 
failure  had  much  to  do  with  his  early  death,  for  he  died 
a  comparatively  young  man. 


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It  is,  therefore,  with  the  utmost  commiseration  that 
his  Companions  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  in  their  full  sympa- 
thy, extend  to  his  friends,  relatives  and  family  their  sin- 
cere condolence  for  the  sad  loss  they  have  experienced 
in  his  early  demise,  and  resignedly  but  devoutly  point  to 
Him — "In  Whom  we  place  our  trust." 

JAMES  A.   SEXTON, 
HORACE  H.   THOMAS, 
ALFRED  T.   ANDREAS, 

Committee. 


FRANK  HITCHCOCK. 

Captain  Eighty-sixth  Illinois  Infantry,   United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Peoria,  Illinois,  April  25,  1895. 

*7TiS  IN  days  gone  by  we  have  seen  amidst  the  roar  of 
f\  artillery  and  the  crack  of  the  rifle,  our  comrades 
^^  swept  down  all  around  us  by  the  leaden  messen- 
ger of  death,  so  now  we  see  that  the  grim  Reaper  seems 
to  be  no  less  busy  and  that  every  one  of  our  successive 
meetings  marks  the  loss  of  those  who  are  dropping  by 
the  wayside,  we  may  almost  say,  day  by  day. 

We  are  now  called  to  pay  a  parting  tribute  to  our  late 
Companion,  Captain  Frank  Hitchcock,  who  was  born  in 
Painesville,  Ohio,  1839,  and  died  at  Peoria,  Illinois,  April 
25>  *895.  Moving  to  Peoria  County,  Illinois,  when  sev- 
enteen years  of  age,  like  so  many  of  our  best  and  bright- 

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est  men  he  spent  his  early  years  upon  the  old  farm.  At 
the  outbreak  of  the  Rebellion  he  needed  no  second  call, 
and  so  the  early  part  of  1861  found  him  in  the  Union 
ranks  where  his  bravery  and  force  of  character  speedily 
brought  him  promotion  to  Captain  in  the  Eighty-sixth 
Regiment  of  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  August  27,  1862. 
His  military  record  is  so  long  and  his  career  so  active 
that  no  attempt  at  details  will  be  made  here.  Suffice  it  to 
say,  that  he  was  in  the  Thirty-sixth  Brigade  of  Sheridan's 
Division,  afterwards  in  the  Third  Brigade  of  the  Second 
Division  Fourteenth  Corps,  Army  of  the  Cumberland. 
At  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge, 
and  in  the  many  battles  of  the  Atlanta  Campaign, 
in  Sherman's  glorious  March  to  the  Sea,  and  in  the 
capture  of  Savanah,  Captain  Hitchcock  could  be  found 
wherever  duty  called  him;  and  he  was  one  who  felt  that 
duty  called  him,  wherever  the  fight  was  hottest.  With 
an  enthusiasm  that  knew  no  tiring,  with  a  courage  that 
knew  no  flinching,  he  faced  his  country's  enemy  until  he 
was  mustered  out  June  6,  1865,  with  but  one  hand,  a 
part  of  the  other  having  been  left  at  Kenesaw  Mountain. 

On  account  of  the  same  traits  of  character  that  made 
him  so  true  and  brave  a  soldier,  he  was  made  Sheriff  of 
Peoria  County  term  after  term,  was  made  the  Mayor  of 
the  city  of  Peoria,  and  also  United  States  Marshal  for  the 
Northern  District  of  Illinois;  and  the  remembrance  of 
these  qualities  makes  our  hearts  ache  to-day  as  we  realize 
the  loss  that  this  Commandery  has  sustained  in  his  death. 

It  is  not  often  that  a  lion's  heart  is  found  with  a 
woman's  tenderness  and  sympathetic  nature.  Captain 
Hitchcock  was  one  who  could  do  his  duty  and  inflict  no 
unnecessary  sting;  he  was  one  of  the  few  who  could  clasp 
the  manacles  on  a  prisoner's  wrists  and  make  him  his 
friend  at  the  same  time. 


236  MEMORIALS. 

We  can  ask  no  greater  blessing  on  those  who  shall 
one  day  fill  our  places,  than  that  they  may  find  no  lack 
of  men  as  true,  as  strong,  as  lovable,  as  he  to  whom  we 
now  say  farewell. 

ELIOT  CALLENDER, 
MARTIN  KINGMAN, 
JOHN  D.   McCLURE, 

Committee. 


EVERETT  BRUCE  PRESTON. 

Ca-ptain  Twenty-  second  Connecticut  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.      Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  April  27,  1895. 


BRUCE  PRESTON  was  born  in  Willing- 
ton,  Connecticut,  September  I2th,  in  1843,  and 
was  eighteen  years  of  age  when  the  war  broke  out. 
His  brother  entering  the  service  at  the  breaking  out  of 
the  war,  he  was  eager  to  enlist;  but  was  persuaded  by 
his  brother  to  remain  at  home,  which  he  did  until  the 
following  year;  but  when  the  President  called  for  three 
hundred  thousand  militia  to  serve  for  nine  months,  he 
enlisted  in  Company  H,  Twenty-second  Connecticut  Vol- 
unteers. Although  so  young  he  was  elected  First  Lieu- 
tenant, and  three  months  afterward  was  promoted  to 
Captain,  being  the  youngest  officer  in  his  regiment.  He 

237 


238  MEMORIALS. 

gave  especial  attention  to  the  discipline  of  his  men,  and 
was  complimented  on  having  the  best  drilled  company. 
The  regiment  served  in  the  defences  of  Washington  until 
April,  1863,  when  it  was  sent  to  Suffolk,  Virginia,  to 
defend  it  against  Longstreet's  siege  of  that  place;  this 
was  a  service  of  nightly  surprises  and  fatiguing  duty  in 
the  trenches,  the  enemy  threatening  night  and  day. 
After  Longstreet  abandoned  the  siege,  the  regiment 
moved  to  Yorktown,  and  was  with  the  advance  of  Gen- 
eral Dix,  threatening  Richmond  at  the  time  of  the  ad- 
vance of  Lee  into  Pennsylvania,  in  the  Gettysburg  cam- 
paign, and  was  shortly  after  mustered  out. 

After  the  regiment  had  been  discharged,  Captain 
Preston  returned  to  Hartford  and  resumed  his  place  in 
business,  remaining  there  until  1869,  when  he  removed 
to  Chicago  and  went  into  the  rubber  goods  and  fire  ap- 
paratus trade,  building  up  a  successful  business.  He 
was  a  very  capable,  energetic,  and  far-sighted  business 
man,  and  was  successful  in  whatever  he  undertook.  He 
lost  nearly  all  he  had  in  the  great  fire,  but  paid  his  in- 
debtedness in  full,  and  was  very  prosperous  during  the 
years  succeeding;  establishing  branch  stores  at  Grand 
Rapids,  Michigan,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  and  Port- 
land, Oregon.  He  was  a  director  and  general  manager 
of  the  Mayall  Rubber  Company,  of  Reading,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  handled  all  the  rubber  shoes  manufac- 
tured and  shipped  west  of  Pittsburgh  and  to  the  Rocky 
Mountains. 

We  lose  in  him  an  estimable  citizen  and  worthy 
Companion;  one  of  the  class  of  men  who  have  helped  to 
build  up  Chicago  and  the  West,  and  who,  after  serving 
their  country  in  its  time  of  need,  show  that  in  times  of 
peace  they  are  behind  none  in  their  ability  to  hold  their 
own  in  life's  strifes  and  duties. 


MEMORIALS.  239 

The  Commandery  extends  its  sympathy  to  his  afflicted 
wife  and  daughter  in  their  irreparable  loss. 

GEORGE  K.   DAUCHY, 
ALBERT  L.   COE, 
WILLIAM  A.   MONTGOMERY, 

Committee. 


WALTER    QUINTIN    GRESHAM. 

Brigadier  General  and  Brevet  Major    General,    United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  May  28,  1895. 

OESOLVED,  That  we,  the  Illinois  Commandery  of 
|\  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
^"*  United  States,  sincerely  mourn  the  loss  of  our  be- 
loved ex-Commander,  General  Walter  Quintin  Gresham, 
whose  warm  heart  and  rugged  virtues  his  Companions 
will  ever  cherish  in  loving  memory. 

Resolved,  That,  reserving  for  more  careful  prepara- 
tion hereafter  a  just  memorial  of  his  character  and  serv- 
ices, we  now  at  this  informal  meeting,  held  on  the  eve 
of  his  burial,  desire  to  express  our  full  appreciation  of 
his  exceptional  ability  both  as  a  military  leader  and  in 
civil  life.  We  record  our  admiration  of  his  splendid 

240 


MEMORIALS.  24! 

personal  courage  long  ago  manifested  so  often  on  the 
battle-field,  enabling  him  even  while  being  borne  out  of 
the  fight  with  a  shattered  limb  to  pause  and  give  a  last 
important  order,  and  manifested  later  in  numberless 
forensic  contests  and  judicial  decrees  where  conduct 
which  he  considered  fraud  was  relentlessly  denounced 
and  where  right,  as  he  saw  the  right,  was  sternly  main- 
tained. We  recall  with  affection  his  hearty  and  cordial 
friendship  and  his  constant  and  willing  attention  to  the 
duties  of  the  chair  of  this  Commandery.  We  recognize 
the  broad  and  catholic  spirit  of  the  man  who  twice  rose 
so  easily  from  local  labors  to  national  affairs,  and  who 
at  last  wore  out  his  life  in  the  service  of  his  country, 
while  patiently  performing  the  exacting  duties  of  one  of 
its  most  exalted  offices,  as  Secretary  of  State. 

Resolved,  That  this  Commandery  make  suitable  ar- 
rangements for  representation  at  his  funeral,  and  that 
the  Recorder  transmit  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  to  the 
family  of  our  deceased  Companion. 

At  the  stated  meeting  held  June  13,  1895,  the  following  report  was 
read  and  adopted: 

No  occasion  could  be  more  appropriate  to  pay  our 
tribute  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  Walter  Quintin 
Gresham  than  the  present,  when  fathers  and  sons  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  are  assembled  together  at  this  their  annual 
meeting.  Sorrow  for  the  death  of  one  who  always  en- 
joyed these  unique  gatherings  is  mingled  with  the  pleasure 
of  the  hour. 

To  the  fathers,  the  illustrious  deceased  has  been  a 
Companion,  the  Commander  of  the  Commandery  and  a 
warm-hearted  friend.  To  the  sons,  his  example,  his 
struggles  and  his  successes  will  prove  a  lesson  full  of 
encouragement.  To  both  he  is  the  typical  American, 
having  attained  distinction  and  exalted  position  by  his 


242  MEMORIALS. 

unaided  efforts,  his  sterling  qualities  and  incorruptible 
integrity. 

Though  death  comes  frequently,  reducing  our  ranks 
and  taking  away  a  Sheridan,  a  Logan,  a  Strong,  a 
White,  a  Stiles  and  many  others  equally  dear,  yet  we 
are  never,  nor  can  we  be,  wholly  prepared  for  the 
recurring  presence  of  that  grim  and  victorious  enemy  of 
us  all. 

The  announcement  of  the  death  of  General  Gresham 
came  to  us  with  startling  force.  Each  member  of  this 
Commandery  realized  that  he  had  sustained  a  personal 
loss.  None  knew  so  well  as  we  how  our  friend  enjoyed 
laying  aside  the  burdens  and  responsibilities  of  the 
Bench,  here  to  mingle  with  his  old  comrades  and  to 
fight  his  battles  o'er  again.  With  us  he  was  always  at 
home.  He  loved  the  free  and  unconventional  spirit  of 
our  gatherings.  Here  his  ever  bright  and  penetrating 
eyes  received,  if  possible,  a  brighter  glow  under  the  in- 
fluence of  soul-stirring  battle  hymns  and  stories  of  the 
war.  If,  as  recently  stated  in  a  foreign  paper,  the  time 
has  already  arrived  in  this  country,  that,  when  an  old 
soldier  commences  to  speak  of  army  days,  it  is  the  signal 
for  those  who  did  not  participate  in  the  war  to  rise  and 
leave  the  circle,  we  know  that  such  a  rule  has  no  place 
in  this  gathering  of  fathers  and  sons  to-night.  We  know 
that  one  of  the  great  charms  of  this  organization  is,  that 
we  do  not  weary  in  hearing  of  one  another's  experiences. 
We  know  that  our  reunions  tend  to  keep  alive  the  fires 
of  patriotism  and  loyalty.  We  realize  that  the  associa- 
tions which  bring  us  together  are  stronger  and  more 
binding  than  the  old  ties  of  school  or  college  days.  At 
the  same  time  we  are  not  insensible  to  the  importance 
of  current  history;  we  are  not  stationary.  We  love  to 
advance  and,  keeping  abreast  with  the  progress  and 


MEMORIALS.  243 

spirit  of  the  age,  we  accept  the  duties  of  life  as  they 
devolve  upon  us. 

The  life  of  Walter  Quintin  Gresham  is  an  inspiration 
to  all  who  study  it.  Like  so  many  of  the  distinguished  men 
of  the  Republic,  he  was  born  and  reared  upon  a  farm,  and 
also  like  so  many  of  the  mighty  whose  names  are  inscribed 
in  our  country's  Valhalla,  he  was  destined  to  blaze  his 
way  through  the  trials  of  early  life,  single-handed  and 
alone. 

Born  in  1832,  in  Harrison  County,  Indiana,  he  was 
two  years  of  age  when  he  lost  his  father.  Deprived  of 
paternal  guidance,  he  was  fortunately  blessed  with  a 
mother's  watchful  care,  and  until  he  was  sixteen  years 
of  age  lived  with  her,  working  on  the  farm  and  devoting 
his  spare  hours  to  reading  and  study. 

Relying  upon  his  own  merits  his  advance  during  the 
following  years  was  rapid.  In  1854  he  was  admitted  to 
the  Bar.  In  1858  he  was  married  to  Miss  Matilda  Mc- 
Grain,  a  most  estimable  woman,  who  in  all  the  walks  of 
life  has  been  a  devoted  and  efficient  helpmeet  to  her 
gifted  husband.  In  1860  he  was  elected  to  the  Legisla- 
ture of  Indiana,  and  immediately  thereafter  made  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Military  Affairs.  Here  he  was 
strikingly  active  in  urging  appropriations  for  the  organ- 
ization and  equipment  of  the  State  Militia  for  its  service 
in  the  field. 

The  subsequent  versatile  and  unparalleled  career  of 
General  Gresham  naturally  divides  itself  into  three  peri- 
ods, his  Military,  Judicial,  and  Executive  life.  From  his 
contemporaries  at  Washington;  from  those  who  knew 
him  in  the  important  offices  of  Postmaster  General,  Sec- 
retary of  the  Treasury  and  Secretary  of  State,  there  have 
been  expressed  high  tributes  to  his  executive  worth  and 
skill. 


244  MEMORIALS. 

From  those  associated  with  him  for  twenty-two  years 
upon  the  Bench,  and  from  those  who  practiced  before 
him  in  the  Seventh  United  States  Judicial  Circuit,  com- 
prising the  States  of  Indiana,  Illinois  and  Wisconsin, 
there  have  been  recorded  sincere  tributes  to  his  unsullied 
name  and  to  his  conspicuous  ability  as  a  fearless,  con- 
scientious and  upright  Judge;  one  who  sought  only  to  do 
justice  between  man  and  man,  and  whose  robes  of  ermine 
were  ever  spotless. 

In  1888,  so  great  was  his  popularity  and  so  wide- 
reaching  the  confidence  reposed  in  his  judgment  and 
character,  he  became  the  spontaneous  and  unanimous 
choice  of  his  party  in  this  State  for  the  nomination  to 
the  Presidency.  This  distinction,  conferred  upon  him 
at  a  time  when  he  had  been  a  resident  of  the  State  but 
for  a  short  period,  he  regarded  as  unprecedented,  and  he 
appreciated  the  honor  with  feelings  of  pleasure  and  pride. 

It  was  as  a  gallant  soldier  that  our  Companion  was 
best  known  to  this  Commandery.  We  had  shared  his 
military  life  and  we  knew  his  intrepidity  and  other  sol- 
dierly qualities,  —  his  sympathies,  his  manliness,  his 
patriotism.  When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  he  declined 
re-election  to  the  Legislature,  and  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  the  Thirty-eighth  Indiana  Infantry.  He  was  speedily 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  and  on 
March  10,  1862,  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Fifty- 
third  Indiana  Volunteers.  As  he  rode  out  from  Cory- 
don,  young  and  of  striking  appearance,  at  the  head  of 
his  regiment,  to  do  battle  for  his  country,  his  faithful 
and  patriotic  wife  proudly  cheered  him  on  to  victory. 

He  was  commissioned  Brigadier  General  of  United 
States  Volunteers  January  25,  1863;  brevetted  Major  Gen- 
eral United  States  Volunteers  March  13,  1863,  and  mus- 
tered out  of  service  April  30,  1 866.  He  was  at  the  siege  of 


MEMORIALS.  245 

Vicksburg,  at  Corinth,  and  in  the  arduous  Atlanta  cam- 
paign. As  Military  Governor  of  Natchez,  the  high  order 
of  administrative  ability  exhibited  by  him  compelled  ad- 
miration alike  from  friend  and  foe.  In  the  movement  on 
Atlanta,  and  while  at  the  front  reconnoitering,  he  was 
shot  in  the  right  thigh  by  one  of  the  enemy's  sharp- 
shooters. His  Corps  Commander,  Major  General  Frank 
P.  Blair,  in  his  official  report  of  the  operations  of  this 
campaign,  said:  "General  Gresham,  who  was  seriously 
wounded  on  the  2Oth  of  July,  displayed  the  greatest  cour- 
age and  skill  in  the  management  of  his  troops  on  that 
day."  It  was  a  source  of  life-long  regret  to  him  that  the 
fortunes  of  war  prevented  him  from  being  on  the  field  at 
Shiloh.  He  was,  however,  serving  his  country  as  faith- 
fully while  guarding  the  lines  and  supplies  at  Savannah, 
within  sound  of  the  roar  of  battle,  as  those  who  faced 
the  enemy  amid  shot  and  shell. 

He  won  the  friendship  and  esteem  of  Grant,  Sher- 
man and  McPherson,  and  possessed  the  highest  confi- 
dence of  the  men  of  his  command.  Grant,  when 
President,  unsolicited,  placed  him  on  the  Federal  Bench. 
The  lamented  McPherson,  who  was  himself  so  soon  to 
give  his  life  defending  the  flag  of  his  country,  when  in- 
formed that  his  Division  General  had  been  stricken 
down,  showed  a  deep  interest  in  his  welfare  and  di- 
rected that  he  should  receive  the  most  assiduous  care 
and  skill. 

Of  Sherman  it  is  said,  that  when  Colonel  Gresham 
told  him  that  the  men  of  the  Fifty-third  Regiment  were 
raw,  that  he  himself  did  not  know  anything  of  military 
affairs,  and  that  he  wanted  to  know  something,  the 
great  hero  welcomed  him,  and  characteristically  replied 
that  he,  Gresham,  was  the  first  man  he  had  met  who 
did  not  think  he  knew  everything,  and  as  a  mark  of  con- 


246  MEMORIALS. 

fidence  he  would  order  his  regiment  out  on  the  picket 
line. 

We  know  how  he  prized  the  years  he  passed  on  the 
tented  field.  There  was  no  portion  of  his  public  career 
of  which  he  was  so  proud,  and  it  has  been  said  he  pre- 
ferred the  title  of  "General"  to  that  of  "Judge"  or  "Mr. 
Secretary." 

Possessing  a  winning  and  magnetic  personality,  of  a 
tender,  generous  and  considerate  nature,  he  enjoyed  the 
experiences  of  the  camp,  the  march  and  the  battle,  and 
was. 'closely  drawn  towards  those  who  had  known  a 
similar  life.  It  will  be  long  before  we  forget  his  pleas- 
ant and  simple  ways.  Never  wholly  recovering  from 
hisiwound  and  bearing  his  sufferings  with  heroism,  he 
gave^his  life  to  his  country  as  truly  as  did  those  who  died 
on  the  battle-field. 

In  this  city,  on  Memorial  Day, — a  day  hallowed  to 
so  many  sacred  memories;  amid  the  most  impressive 
surroundings;  in  the  presence  of  his  afflicted  widow  and 
family,  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  his  Cabi- 
net, this  Commandery  and  thousands  of  mourning 
friends,  military  honors  were  accorded  to  the  memory  of 
this  distinguished  man;  taps  were  sounded,  and  the 
soldier-citizen  was  tenderly  laid  to  rest. 

"After  life's  fitful  fever  he  sleeps  well." 

ALDACE  F.    WALKER, 

TAMES  L.    HIGH, 

'•--,-.-     J 

HUNTINGTON    W.  JACKSON, 

EPHRAIM  A.  OTIS, 
MARTIN  J.   RUSSELL, 
RICHARD  S.   TUTHILL, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  RANDOLPH   DYER. 

Captain  and   Assistant   Quartermaster.    United   States    Volunteers. 
Died  at  Excelsior  Springs,  Missouri,  Jtily  fj,  1895. 

IN  MEMORY  of  Captain  George  Randolph  Dyer,  born 
June  3,   1812,    at  Clarendon,  Rutland  County,  Ver- 
mont; died  July  13,  1895,  at  Excelsior  Springs,  Clay 
County,  Missouri. 

Captain  Dyer  was  educated  at  Rutland  Academy,  Ver- 
mont. 

At  the  early  age  of  twenty-one,  driving  overland,  he 
sought  his  fortunes  in  the  West.  In  1835,  he  explored 
the  shores  of  Lake  Michigan  in  a  bark  canoe.  Impressed 
with  the  future  of  Milwaukee  and  Chicago,  he  purchased 
property  in  both  cities.  In  1841  he  sold  his  possessions 
and  settled  in  the  town  of  Plainfield,  Will  County,  Illinois. 

247 


248  MEMORIALS. 

In  1856,  he  was  elected  Sheriff  of  Will  County.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  and  most  prominent  members  of  the 
Republican  party  in  Illinois,  and  so  became  a  close  friend 
of  Lincoln,  Lovejoy,  Wentworth  and  other  leaders  of  the 
party  in  the  State.  He  was,  of  course,  strongly  opposed 
to  slavery,  and  for  some  time  kept  a  station  of  the  "un- 
derground railroad." 

Captain  Dyer  belonged  to  a  family  of  soldiers.  His 
father  fought  under  General  Stark,  at  the  Battle  of  Ben- 
nington,  and  at  the  close  of  the  Revolution  was  commis- 
sioned (by  Governor  Hancock)  Major  of  Massachusetts 
State  Militia.  Two  of  his  brothers  distinguished  them- 
selves in  the  War  of  1812.  Two  of  his  sons  served  in 
the  Union  army  in  the  Civil  War.  One  of  them,  Com- 
panion Daniel  B.  Dyer,  succeeds  him  in  the  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion.  Our  late  beloved  Companion,  Major  Clar- 
ence E.  Dyer,  was  his  nephew. 

October  31,  1861,  President  Lincoln  commissioned 
him  Captain  and  Assistant  Quartermaster,  U.  S.V.  His 
entire  military  service  was  at  Pilot  Knob,  Missouri,  where 
he  proved  himself  a  most  faithful,  efficient  and  honest 
officer,  doing  his  duty  with  the  utmost  zeal,  and  helping 
forward  the  Union  cause  with  all  the  energy  and  persist- 
ence of  an  enthusiastic  and  loyal  nature.  Whatever  he 
did,  he  did  with  his  might,  always  feeling  that  his  coun- 
try was  entitled  to,  and  should  have,  the  best  service 
which  he  could  render  it.  He  resigned  May  19,  1865. 

Another  Companion  has  answered  the  last  roll-call, 
Another  brave  spirit  has  gone  to  meet  its  God. 

JOHN   L.    BEVERIDGE, 
PHILIP  C.   HAYES, 
ALFRED  T.  ANDREAS, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  FREDERICK  ROOT. 

Companion  of  the  Third  Class.     Died  at  Bailey's  Island.  Maine, 
August  6,  1895. 

Y  OUR  Committee  on  Memorial  to  Dr.  George  F.  Root, 
V      desire  to  report  as  follows: 

Another  name  has  been  transferred  from  the  registry 
of  this  Commandery  to  that  of  Heaven.  Born  on  August 
20,  1820,  Doctor  Root  had  just  completed  his  seventy- 
fifth  year  when  gathered  to  his  fathers. 

A  member  of  the  Third  Class  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  he 
has  left  us  to  join  the  comrades  who  have  gone  before, 
and  to  be  joined,  we  trust,  by  those  of  us  who  remain, 
but  are  ere  long  to  follow. 

As  his  survivors,  ours  is  the  consolation  of  cherishing 
the  memory  of  a  beautiful  life — beautiful  not  in  the  mere 

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25O  MEMORIALS. 

perfunctory  use  of  that  word,  for  that  life  was  replete 
with  those  charms  of  character,  arid  those  intellectual 
achievements  that  lend  to  manhood  both  dignity  and 
grace. 

His  was,  indeed,  a  life  of  genuine  harmony,  harmony 
of  practice  with  precept,  harmony  of  Christian  character, 
harmony  of  mind  and  soul. 

Although  not  of  the  profession  of  arms,  his  martial 
songs  proved  an  exhaustless  source  of  encouragement 
and  inspiration  to  the  hosts  who  battled  for  the  Union; 
and  scarcely  less  effective  have  been  his  melodies  in  the 
home  circle,  and  the  sacred  songs  that  have  animated 
the  soldiers  marching  under  the  banner  of  Christ. 

The  same  genial  and  loving  spirit  that  gave  birth  to 
those  enchanting  melodies,  pervaded  his  whole  nature, 
and  brightened  his  intercourse  with  his  fellow  men,  en- 
dearing him  to  all  who  came  within  the  circle  of  his 
friendship. 

No  name  is  more  fondly  associated  than  his  with  the 
cause  of  liberty  and  the  Union,  by  those  who  were  its 
champions  at  home  and  in  the  field.  No  songs  will  prove 
more  enduring  than  his  when  sung  in  memory  of  the 
past,  none  more  potent  to  arouse  enthusiasm  and  inspire 
to  heroic  deeds  the  patriots  of  our  beloved  Republic,  if 
ever  assailed  by  foreign  powers. 

We  consecrate  anew  in  our  hearts  the  love  of  him 
whose  praise  we  unconsciously  chant  whenever  joining 
our  voices  in  the  soul-inspiring  words  and  music  of  the 

"  Battle  Cry  of  Freedom.  " 

THOMAS  B.  BRYAN, 

HORATIO  L.  WAIT, 

EUGENE  GARY, 

Committee. 


MAYER  FRANK. 

Captain  Eighty-second  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States  Vohinteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  August  16,  1895. 

IN  THAT  vanguard  which  sprang  to  the  call  of  a  threat- 
ened country  stood  our  late  Companion,  Mayer  Frank. 
Although  but  a  few  years  had  elapsed  since  he  had 
come,  a  stranger  among  a  strange  people,  he  had  learned 
the  lesson  of  patriotism  thoroughly,  and  thus  early  sought 
to  testify  to  his  devotion  to  the  land  of  his  adoption. 

Born  in  Nordsteten,  Wuerttemberg,  Germany,  April 
9,  1841,  he  left  that  place  at  the  age  of  twelve  years, 
coming  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  remained  until  1860, 
when  he  removed  to  Chicago. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he  sought  to  enlist  under 
the  first  call,  but  was  refused  because  of  his  physical 
condition  at  the  time. 

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252  MEMORIALS. 

In  August,  1862,  he  was  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic 
and  energetic  of  a  committee  of  Hebrew  citizens  in 
Chicago,  organized  to  encourage  enlistments,  etc.  In 
three  days  they  had  raised  ten  thousand  dollars,  as  well  as 
organized  a  company  composed  exclusively  of  members 
of  their  own  faith  and  known  as  the  Concordia  Guards. 

This  company  was  subsequently  mustered  into  the 
United  States  service  as  Company  C,  Eighty-second 
Illinois  Volunteers.  Enlisted  therein,  Companion  Frank 
was  appointed  First  Lieutenant  August  16,  1862,  and 
promoted  Captain  May  28,  1863. 

He  participated  in  the  battles  of  Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Missionary  Ridge  and  vari- 
ous minor  engagements  with  his  regiment  and  in  the 
battle  of  Wauhatchie  was  assigned,  temporarily,  to  com- 
mand the  Eightieth  Illinois. 

He  served  as  Acting  Assistant  Inspector  General  on 
the  Staffs  of  Generals  Schimmelpfenning  and  Tyndale. 
At  Gettysburg  his  horse  was  shot,  and  falling  on  him, 
caused  such  injuries  as  eventually  necessitated  his  resig- 
nation February  29,  1864. 

He  was  a  gentleman,  unostentatious  in  manner  and 
of  a  kindly  nature.  Of  modest  means,  he  was  gener- 
ous to  an  extreme  in  his  charities,  more  especially  when 
the  old  soldier  was  the  object  thereof.  His  long  service 
with  one  firm  testifies  to  his  abilities  and  uprightness. 
Those  nearest  to  him  will  feel  his  absence  most  keenly 
and  their  remembrance  of  him  will  be  the  tenderest  and 

most  enduring. 

JOHN  J.   ABERCROMBIE, 

FRANCIS  LACKNER, 

WILLIAM  VOCKE, 

Committee 


WILLIAM  ADAM  MONTGOMERY. 

Captain  Fifteenth  Wisconsin  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers  . 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  August  21, 


\  i  flLLIAM  ADAM  MONTGOMERY,  late  Captain  of 
«  U.  the  Fifteenth  Wisconsin  Infantry,  was  born  June 
21,  1838,  at  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania.  His  family,  which 
was  of  Scotch-Irish  stock,  emigrated  from  the  north  of 
Ireland  first  to  Delaware,  but  moved  afterward  to  Lan- 
caster County,  Pennsylvania,  settling  in  Little  Britain 
Township  in  Lancaster  County,  upon  land  which  was 
obtained  by  grant  from  William  Penn.  Captain  Mont- 
gomery came  from  patriotic  ancestry.  His  grandfather, 
William  Montgomery,  who  was  born  in  1761,  when  a 
boy  of  about  sixteen  years,  left  the  academy  at  Newark, 
Delaware,  where  he  was  pursuing  his  education,  and 

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254  MEMORIALS. 

joined  the  Revolutionary  Army  in>  1776  or  1777.     He  was 
in  the  engagement  at  Trenton,  where  he  was  wounded, 
and  also  the  actions  at  Princeton  and  elsewhere.      At  a 
later  time  he  was  Captain  of  the  Lancaster  Light  Horse. 
After  the   Revolution  he   studied  law  and  practiced   in 
Lancaster  until  his  death  in    1826.      His  son,  John  R. 
Montgomery,  the  father  of  our  late  Companion,  was  born 
in  1801.      He  was  conspicuous  at  the  Lancaster  bar  for 
his  eloquence  and  ability  as  a  lawyer,  at  a  time   when 
that  bar  numbered  among  its  active  members  such  men 
as  James  Buchanan,  Thadeus   Stevens,  the  great  Com- 
moner, and  other  men  of  national  reputation.      He  won 
his  fame  as  a  lawyer  in  early  life,  for  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
six  he  was  struck  by  lightning,  and  was  an  invalid  from 
that  time  until  his  death  in    1854.      His  mother  having 
died  in  1847,  William  A.  Montgomery  was  thus  left  an 
orphan  at  an  early  age,  in  the  care  of  an  older  sister.     At 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  Washington  and  Jefferson 
College  as  a  sophomore,  spending  one  year  in  that  insti- 
tution.      The    family    then    moved    to    the    West,    and 
William  A.  Montgomery  entered  Beloit  College,  Wiscon- 
sin, as  a  junior,  graduating  in  the  year   1857  with  high 
honors.      He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  law  school  at 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  where  he  remained  one  year,  and 
continued   his  studies   the   two   years  following,    in   the 
office  of  Judge  James  C.  Hopkins,  at  Madison,  Wiscon- 
sin.     He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1860. 

In  February  of  the  following  year  he  came  to  Chicago 
to  engage  in  the  practice  of  the  law.  But  within  a  few 
weeks  the  guns  from  Sumter  proclaimed  that  the  great 
debate  between  freedom  and  slavery  was  to  be  submitted 
to  the  arbitrament  of  arms.  True  to  the  example  of  his 
revolutionary  grandfather,  Montgomery  at  once  laid  aside 
his  law  books,  and  enlisted  in  the  Second  Regiment  of 


MEMORIALS.  255 

Wisconsin  Infantry.  Owing  to  some  difficulty  about  the 
three  year  term  of  enlistment,  the  company  in  which  he 
had  enlisted  was  not  accepted.  Young  Montgomery 
thereupon  returned  to  Beloit,  where  he  joined  in  the 
organization  of  a  new  regiment;  and  on  the  I4th  of  De- 
cember, 1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Fifteenth 
Wisconsin  Infantry.  Upon  the  organization  of  the  regi- 
ment he  was  elected  Second  Lieutenant  of  his  company, 
the  commissiim  bearing  date  January  10,  1862,  to  date 
from  his  enlistment.  On  the  2nd  of  March,  1862,  the 
Fifteenth  Wisconsin  began  its  war  service  at  Bird's  Point, 
Missouri,  and  while  there  Lieutenant  Montgomery  was 
presented  by  his  friends  in  the  company  with  a  handsome 
sword.  His  first  engagement  was  at  Hickman,  where 
four  companies  repulsed  a  small  rebel  force.  Subse- 
quently the  regiment  was  sent  to  join  the  forces  above 
Island  No.  10,  and  soon  after  surprised  and  captured  a 
rebel  force  at  Union  City.  On  the  iith  of  June,  1862, 
Companies  I  and  G  of  the  Fifteenth  were  sent  to  Island 
No.  10,  where  they  remained  until  early  in  September, 
1863.  October  i,  1862,  Montgomery  was  promoted  to 
First  Lieutenant;  but  before  being  mustered  was  again 
promoted  to  Captain  of  Company  I,  his  commission  dat- 
ing from  the  4th  of  April,  1863.  The  2Oth  of  Septem- 
ber following,  the  two  detached  companies  having  been 
ordered  to  join  their  regiment,  reached  the  rest  of  their 
comrades  at  the  close  of  the  second  day's  disastrous 
fighting  at  Chickamauga.  It  was  a  sad  reunion.  Colonel 
Heg,  of  the  Fifteenth,  commanding  the  brigade,  had  been 
killed,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Johnson  and  other  officers 
and  men  had  been  taken  prisoners,  and  many  had  been 
killed  or  wounded  upon  that  hard  fought  field. 

At  Chattanooga  the  regiment  closed  up  its  shattered 
ranks   and   formed  a  part  of  that  splendid   line  of   blue 


256  MEMORIALS. 

which  swept  up  Missionary  Ridge,  as  the  Army  of  the 
Cumberland.  In  the  advance  from  Fort  Wood  the  Fif- 
teenth Wisconsin  was  one  of  the  first  at  the  capture  of 
Orchard  Knob,  and  on  the  25th  of  November  it  partici- 
pated in  the  charge  which  won  the  summit  of  that  his- 
toric Ridge,  and  after  that  brilliant  victory  was  sent 
with  the  force  which  went  to  the  relief  of  Burnside 
at  Knoxville.  In  these  engagements  Captain  Mont- 
gomery participated,  and  nobly  performed  his  duty  as  a 
soldier. 

In  the  winter  of  1863  and  1864,  Captain  Montgomery 
was  ordered  north  upon  recruiting  service.  He  returned 
to  his  regiment  in  the  spring  of  1864,  in  time  to  partici- 
pate in  the  Atlanta  campaign.  In  the  fighting  at  Rocky 
Face  Ridge,  at  Resacca,  in  the  assault  upon  Kenesaw 
Mountain,  at  Peach  Tree  Creek,  at  Jonesboro,  at  Love- 
joy  Station  and  the  engagements  about  Atlanta,  he  led 
his  men  in  every  action. 

After  the  capture  of  Atlanta  the  regiment  was  ordered 
to  Chattanooga,  and  the  remainder  of  its  service  was 
rendered  in  that  vicinity  until  the  expiration  of  its  period 
of  enlistment. 

The  war  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union  being  tri- 
umphantly ended,  Captain  Montgomery  returned  to  his 
professional  pursuits  in  Chicago,  where  he  continued  to 
reside  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

Of  his  professional  career  this  is  not  the  time  nor 
place  to  speak  at  length.  He  speedily  acquired  a  large 
and  excellent  practice.  The  legal  ability  which  had 
come  down  through  three  generations  of  distinguished 
lawyers  was  manifest  throughout  his  whole  career  at  the 
bar.  As  a  wise  and  safe  counsellor,  as  a  careful  and 
industrious  lawyer,  as  a  man  of  unquestioned  integrity 
and  capacity,  he  was  respected  and  trusted  by  his  asso- 


MEMORIALS.  257 

ciates  at  the   bar  and    by  the   courts  before  whom  he 
practiced. 

Any  notice  of  Captain  Montgomery  would  be  imper- 
fect which  did  not  in  some  way  refer  to  his  genial  humor, 
his  unfailing  kindliness  of  heart  and  courtesy  of  manner. 
He  was  always  and  everywhere  a  thorough  gentleman, 
and  those  who  best  knew  him  best  understood  the  gen- 
tleness and  tenderness  of  his  character  and  life.  Of  no 
one  could  it  be  more  truthfully  said  that 

"  To  know  him  was  to  love  him, 
To  name  him  was  to  praise." 

He  was  ever  modest  and  courteous  and  yet  always 
firm  in  maintaining  his  own  views  of  the  right.  He  en- 
deavored to  perform  the  duties  of  life,  as  they  came  to 
him,  with  punctilious  accuracy,  with  unfailing  industry, 
and  without  ostentation  or  display.  Were  he  present  with 
us  to-night  his  innate  modesty  would  shrink  from  eulogy, 
as  one  unconscious  of  his  real  worth.  But  we  who  knew 
him  and  who  loved  him  cannot  say  less,  though  we  know 
that  he  himself  would  be  unwilling  that  we  should  say 
more. 

There  is  a  well-known  picture  of  a  line  of  battle 
sleeping  upon  the  field  in  readiness  for  action,  while 
above  it  hovers  another  shadowy  line,  pressing  forward 
in  the  fierce  onset  as  though  foreshadowing  in  dreams 
what  to-morrow  has  in  store  for  the  sleeping  host.  We 
who  gather  here  in  steadily  diminishing  numbers  are  but 
a  small  minority  of  that  great  host  that  went  forth  to 
battle  with  us  in  the  days  of  '61  and  '62.  We  know  not 
yet  what  the  future  has  in  store  for  us,  nor  how  soon  for 
us  "  Lights  out"  shall  be  sounded.  But  we  know  that 
some  to-morrow  shall  muster  us  into  that  greater  army 
which  has  crossed  the  river.  There  let  us  trust  we  may 


258  MEMORIALS. 

meet   again  the   knightly  soldiers,  the   true  friends,  the 
trusted  comrades  whom  we 

"  Have  loved  long  since  and  lost  awhile." 

HENRY  V.  FREEMAN, 
GEORGE  W.   BAIRD, 
WILLIAM  ELIOT  FURNESS, 

Committee. 


ALEXANDER  MILLER  STOUT. 

Colonel  Seventeenth  Kentucky  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General,  United 
States  Volunteers.     Died  at   Chicago,  August  25,  1895, 

"  His  life  was  gentle  and  the  elements 
So  mixed  in  him,  that  nature  might  stand  up 
And  say  to  all  the  world — this  was  a  man." 

/^ENERAL  Alexander  M.  Stout  died  at  the  Presby- 
VQ  terian  Hospital  in  this  city  on  the  25th  day  of 
August,  1895.  During  his  long  illness  his  many 
army  friends  kept  constant  and  loving  vigil  at  his  bed- 
side. All  that  human  skill,  all  that  loving  hands  could 
dc  was  done.  But  the  ailment  had  taken  too  firm  a  hold, 
and  though  bravely  the  old  warrior  fought  against  the 
stern  decree  of  fate,  the  inexorable  law  must  be  enacted, 
and  he  must  go  to  join  the  innumerable  caravan  that 
moves  to  the  mysterious  realms  beyond. 

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26O  MEMORIALS. 

His  soldier  friends  were  unremitting  in  their  attention; 
frequently  called  at  the  hospital  and  each  time  came 
away  realizing  that  their  mission  was  hopeless.  The  old 
soldier  was  making  an  heroic  struggle,  but  his  strength 
was  gone,  pain  and  distress  had  worn  out  the  iron  con- 
stitution. Death  was  near.  At  midnight  he  breathed 
his  last  and  thus  passed  away  a  remarkable  man. 

Alexander  Miller  Stout  was  born  in  Shelby  County, 
Kentucky,  on  the  8th  day  of  January,  1820,  and  was, 
therefore,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  his  seventy-sixth 
year. 

He  was  educated  at  Bardstown  College.  After  tak- 
ing his  degree  in  law  at  Harvard  College  he  settled  at 
Owensborough,  Kentucky,  and  practiced  law  until  1851, 
when  he  removed  to  Louisville.  There  he  served  as  City 
Attorney  for  several  terms.  When  the  war  of  the  Re- 
bellion broke  out  he  raised  the  first  regiment  of  Home 
Guards  and  in  conjunction  with  Colonel  John  H.  McHenry 
raised  the  Seventeenth  Kentucky  Volunteer  Infantry  and 
was  mustered  into  the  service  on  the  2nd  day  of  January, 
1862,  as  Lieutenant  Colonel.  He  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Colonel,  January  27,  1863,  and  commissioned  a 
Brevet  Brigadier  General  United  States  Volunteers  to 
take  rank  from  the  I3th  day  of  March,  1865,  "for gallant 
and  meritorious  service  during  the  war."  His  principal 
service  was  in  Wood's  Division,  Fourth  Army  Corps, 
Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  which  he  commanded  his 
regiment,  and  as  senior  Colonel,  the  brigade  to  which  his 
regiment  was  attached. 

His  first  service  was  in  the  campaign  leading  up  to 
the  battle  of  Shiloh,  in  which  his  eldest  son  was  killed 
and  he  himself  severely  wounded.  Subsequently  he 
participated  in  all  the  campaigns  and  battles  of  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland  and  bore  a  conspicuous  and  gallant 


MEMORIALS.  26l 

part  at  Stone's  River,  Chickamauga,  Missionary  Ridge, 
Atlanta,  Franklin,  Nashville  and  Perryville.  He  was 
mustered  out  of  the  service  January  27,  1865. 

After  the  war  General  Stout  attempted  to  practice  his 
profession  in  Louisville,  but  sentiment  was  so  strong 
against  the  Union  soldier,  that  he  found  himself  almost  an 
alien  in  his  native  state.  While  serving  in  the  Legislature 
he  was  appointed  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Patent  Office,  and 
subsequently  was  Acting  Commissioner  of  Patents.  At 
the  expiration  of  this  time  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law 
in  Washington,  and  moved  to  Chicago  in  1879,  where  he 
continued  the  practice  of  his  profession  until  the  last  few 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  and  of  George  H.  Thomas  Post,  No.  5, 
Department  of  Illinois,  G.  A.  R. 

General  Stout  was  married  in  1848  to  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Stanley  Singleton  of  Hardingsburg,  Ken- 
tucky, who  survives  him,  with  his  two  daughters,  Mrs.  M. 
M.  Dewall  and  Miss  Emma  Stout,  and  Stanley  S.  and 
Dr.  Alexander  M.  Stout  of  this  city. 

It  is  always  proper  to  speak  well  of  the  dead;  it  is 
pleasing  and  grateful  when  the  tribute  comes  not  as  a 
perfunctory  duty,  but  in  spontaneous  appreciation  of  ex- 
cellence and  goodness. 

General  Stout  was  a  soldier  in  appearance  and  action. 
His  head  was  a  noble  one,  his  hair  white  and  beautiful, 
his  face  pleasant  even  to  attractiveness.  His  figure  was 
tall  and  commanding,  these  uniting  to  give  him  a  strik- 
ing personality.  He  was  a  fine  scholar  and  was  very 
familiar  with  the  works  of  the  recognized  authors,  past 
and  cotemporaneous.  He  could  quote  at  will  from  the 
poets,  his  knowledge  of  Shakespeare  being  extraordinary. 

Had  General  Stout  changed  his  political  belief  and 
remained  in  the  State  of  his  nativity  he  might  have  been 


262  MEMORIALS. 

elevated  to  the  highest  place  within  the  gift  of  his  peo- 
ple. But  principle  was  everything  to  him.  He  was 
firm  in  the  faith,  and  in  what  he  believed  was  right  he 
was  as  immovable  as  the  rock.  He  had  no  assumption, 
and  there  was  nothing  aggressive  in  his  make  up.  Mod- 
esty was  his  distinguishing  trait.  No  one  ever  heard 
him  boast  of  a  success.  Though  a  brilliant  soldier,  he 
seldom  if  ever  referred  to  his  achievements.  He  was  as 
gentle  as  a  child  and  his  nature  was  warm,  generous  and 
affectionate.  He  loved  all  things,  he  could  not  see  the 
merest  animal  suffer  and  his  heart  went  out  to  all  in 
affliction.  His  friendship  was  steadfast,  for  once  he 
liked  he  never  disliked  and  would  share  his  all  with  a 
friend.  He  was  an  ideal  soldier.  He  was  as  brave  as  a 
lion  and  seemed  to  love  the  fierce  joy  of  the  conflict. 
He  won  distinction  and  the  confidence  of  his  command 
by  the  constant  display  of  those  soldierly  qualities,  cour- 
age, coolness,  composure  and  heroism,  wherever  duty 
called,  in  every  battle  in  which  he  was  engaged.  His 
death  is  a  public  loss  and  has  cast  a  shadow  of  gloom 
over  a  large  circle  of  friends.  He  was  a  noble  man, 
generous,  genial;  he  loved  and  was  loved.  Peace  to  his 
ashes.  Of  him  even  an  opponent  could  well  say: 

"  I  have  scan'd  the  action  of  his  daily  life, 
With  all  the  industrious  malice  of  a  foe, 
And  nothing  meets  mine  eyes  but  deeds  of  honor." 

EDWARD  A.   BLODGETT, 
JAMES  A.   SEXTON, 
HORACE   H.   THOMAS, 

Committee. 


ANDREW  JACKSON  HOBART. 

Major  and  Surgeon  First  Michigan  Infantry,   United  States  Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Clinton,  Iowa,  December  6, 


'TLNDREW  JACKSON  HOBART  was  born  in  Yates 
County,  New  York,  July  15,  1829.  He  was  mus- 
tered  in  as  Assistant  Surgeon  of  the  First  Michigan 
Infantry,  September  16,  1861,  and  served  with  his  regi- 
ment on  the  Peninsula  before  Richmond,  and  was  very 
useful  in  the  campaigns  before  that  city,  and  in  other 
campaigns  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  until  after  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg.  He  was  detached  for  hospital 
service  at  Harwood  hospital  in  Virginia,  where  he  served 
until  the  first  campaign  before  Fredericksburg. 

He  was  promoted  to  be  Surgeon  of  the  First  Michi- 
gan Infantry,  and  was  mustered  as  such,   in  the  field, 

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264  MEMORIALS. 

December  10,  1862.  He  served  in  the  field  until  March 
1 6,  1864,  when  the  War  Department  ordered  him  to 
special  hospital  duty  in  Jackson,  Michigan.  Doctor  Ho- 
bart's  record  is  brief,  but  he  always  had  the  reputation 
of  being  a  faithful  officer  and  a  good  soldier.  The  men 
of  the  regiment  liked  him  as  a  kindly  friend,  and  his 
brother  officers  esteemed  him  highly  as  a  gentleman  and 
a  patriotic  soldier. 

Doctor  Hobart  was  exceedingly  retiring  in  disposi- 
tion, and  his  temperament  was  not  aggressive.  It  was 
therefore  necessary  to  know  him  a  long  time  before  one 
could  learn  of,  and  appreciate,  his  genial  nature  and 
really  attractive  disposition. 

After  the  war  he  returned  to  his  profession  of  medi- 
cine, in  which  he  served  his  fellow  citizens  efficiently 
and  successfully.  Those  who  were  near  to  this  good 
man  and  faithful  soldier  regret  his  death  exceedingly. 
He  leaves  a  wife  and  two  children. 

ARTHUR  EDWARDS, 
CHARLES  W.  MEYERS, 
JOHN  T.  McAuLEY, 

Committee. 


ALBERT  EGERTON  ADAMS. 

Captain  First  Nersj  York  Mounted  Rifles,   United  States    Volunteers. 
Died  at   Chicago,  Illinois,  January  4,  i8qb. 

ALBERT  EGERTON  ADAMS,  Captain  First  New 
f\  York  Mounted  Rifles,  was  born  at  Great  Fails,  New 
^^  Hampshire,  August  22,  1840.  He  died  at  his 
home  on  Drexel  Boulevard,  Chicago,  January  4,  1896. 

Companion  Adams  was  of  direct  Puritan  descent,  two 
of  his  ancestors  having  been  of  the  Pilgrim  company 
which  came  over  from  England  in  the  Mayflower  in 
1620.  Two  of  his  great-grandfathers  were  officers  in 
the  Revolutionary  Army.  Like  his  father  and  grand- 
father, Companion  Adams  was  a  graduate  of  Yale,  enter- 
ing college  in  1858  and  graduating  in  1862. 

At  this  time  his  father,  Reverend  John  Ripley  Adams, 

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266  MEMORIALS. 

although  sixty  years  of  age,  was  already  one  of  the  few 
"righting  Chaplains"  of  the  army,  serving  in  the  Eighth 
Maine  Infantry.  The  example  of  the  father  found  a 
ready  follower  in  the  son.  As  old  soldiers  do  not  need 
to  be  reminded,  it  was  in  the  summer  of  that  year,  1862, 
that  President  Lincoln's  call  for  "three  hundred  thous- 
and more,"  summoned  so  many  of  our  number  to  camp 
and  field. 

Fresh  from  college  life,  young  Adams  at  once  began 
to  recruit  a  company,  and  upon  its  organization  became 
its  First  Lieutenant,  and  within  a  year  thereafter  was 
promoted  to  be  Captain.  His  service  was  largely  scout- 
ing in  Virginia,  a  service  full  of  hardship  and  danger,  in 
which  he  won  official  commendation  for  bravery,  and  is 
said  to  have  been  offered  promotion  as  Colonel,  when 
his  health  broke  down  and  it  became  necessary  to  send 
him  home  because  of  disability. 

In  1865,  after  the  war,  he  went  into  the  hardware 
business  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  removing  thence  to  Chi- 
cago in  1878.  Captain  Adams  was  intelligently  inter- 
ested in  all  matters  of  public  welfare  and  concern.  He 
took  a  sincere  and  active  interest  in  the  laboring  men, 
usually  about  eight  hundred  in  number,  in  his  employ, 
and  studied  with  zeal,  matters  affecting  the  relations  of 
labor  and  capital.  There  were  no  more  sincere  mourn- 
ers at  the  memorial  services  held  after  his  death  than 
his  own  employes. 

Few  men  were  more  highly  respected,  and  seldom 
has  any  man  been  more  highly  honored,  not  only  by  his 
neighbors  and  friends,  but  by  the  community  in  general 
of  that  part  of  the  city  in  which  he  lived. 

The  memorial  services  held  after  his  death,  in  the 
South  Congregational  Church  where  he  attended,  bore 
unusual  witness  to  the  high  regard  entertained  for  him 


MEMORIALS.  26/ 

• 

by  those  who  knew  him  best.      He  lived  a  life  of  useful 
service,  and  now — 

"After  life's  fitful  fever,   he  sleeps  well." 

HENRY  V.   FREEMAN, 
HUNTINGTON  W.  JACKSON, 
JOSEPH  STOCKTON, 

Committee. 


ASA  ABRAHAM  MATTESON. 

Died  at  Galesburg,  Illinois,  January  4,  i8g6. 

*Tf.SA  A.  MATTESON,  a  Companion  of  this  Com- 
f\  mandery  of  the  First  Class  by  inheritance,  depart- 
^*  ed  this  life  on  Saturday,  the  4th  day  of  January, 
1896,  after  an  illness  of  one  week.  He  was  born  in 
Warren  County,  in  this  State,  on  the  24th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1837,  and  was  able  to  trace  his  lineage  through  the 
early  pioneers  of  New  England  to  an  illustrious  ancestry 
in  Denmark,  on  the  Matteson  side,  and,  on  the  mother's 
side,  to  the  Ogden  family  of  England.  Mr.  Matteson 
had  the  misfortune  to  lose  his  right  arm  in  his  early 
boyhood.  His  father  died  before  he  was  eight  years 
old,  and  his  mother  and  family  soon  after  removed  to 
Galesburg,  Knox  County. 

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MEMORIALS.  269 

One  of  the  striking  characteristics  of  his  whole  life 
was  his  thoroughness  in  everything  he  undertook,  and 
there  were  few  things  in  which  he  did  not  excel  his 
youthful  companions.  He  obtained  an  excellent  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  and  Academy,  studied  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1860.  On  the  breaking 
out  of  the  war  in  1861,  he  nobly  performed  his  part  of 
the  patriotic  work  so  suddenly  thrust  upon  the  young 
men  of  the  North.  He  recruited  the  greater  part  of  two 
companies  of  Colonel  Ingersoll's  regiment,  the  Eleventh 
Illinois  Cavalry,  and  was  offered  the  position  of  a  Bat- 
talion Quartermaster  of  that  regiment,  but  as  all  of  his 
brothers  were  in  the  service  he  felt  that  he  must  remain 
at  home  to  care  for  his  widowed  mother  and  young  sis- 
ter, and  declined  the  offer.  His  active  services  were 
always  enlisted  during  the  war  in  behalf  of  sick  and 
wounded  soldiers,  and  there  was  never  a  question  of  his 
sincere  loyalty  and  patriotism. 

As  a  citizen,  lawyer,  banker,  business  man,  or  public 
officer,  he  has  left  a  record  second  to  none.  Companion 
Matteson  had  been  a  member  of  this  Commandery  but 
a  comparatively  short  time,  but  we  had  learned  to  ap- 
preciate the  conservatism,  good  judgment,  and  sterling 
common  sense  that  had  made  his  life  so  eminently  suc- 
cessful, and  the  uprightness  of  character  which  always 
marked  his  career. 

He  leaves  a  widow,  three  sons,  one  daughter,  two 
brothers  and  one  sister  to  mourn  his  departure.  With 
them,  and  the  hosts  of  friends  who  honor  his  memory, 
this  Commandery  unites  in  loving  sympathy. 

DlLLWYN    V.     PURINGTON, 

ARTHUR  A.   SMITH, 
LEMUEL  L.   SCOTT, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  PAGE  STOWE. 

Chaplain  Twenty-seventh  Wisconsin  Infantry,  United  States  Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  January  4,  i8q6. 

QEVEREND  William  Page  Stowe,  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  a 
[A  member  of  the  Illinois  Commandery,  and  a  cler- 
^~"  gyman  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  was 
born  in  Haverill,  New  Hampshire,  1832,  and  died  in 
Chicago,  Illinois,  January  4,  1896. 

He  came  West  with  his  parents  in  1843,  was  gradu- 
ated by  Lawrence  University,  at  Appleton,  Wisconsin, 
and  entered  the  ministry  in  1858,  wherein  he  received 
some  of  the  highest  honors  given  by  his  church.  In  1863 
he  became  the  Chaplain  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Wiscon- 
sin Infantry,  which  did  good  service  in  the  Southwest, 
and  was  a  part  of  the  forces  before  Vicksburg,  under 

270 


MEMORIALS.  2/1 

General  Sherman.  Those  who  knew  Doctor  Stowe  dur- 
ing his  military  service  speak  in  high  terms  of  his  useful- 
ness as  a  Chaplain  in  the  field,  among  his  old  friends  and 
Wisconsin  fellow  citizens.  As  a  minister  he  was  award- 
ed very  responsible  pastorates.  He  was  a  pure  man,  an 
able  preacher,  an  intelligent  citizen,  and  a  patriotic, 
faithful  soldier. 

His  practical  capacity  was  held  in  high  esteem,  and 
he  served  for  twelve  years  as  one  of  the  agents  and 
managers  of  one  of  the  two  publication  houses  of  his 
church.  In  this  position  he  acquitted  himself  honorably 
and  with  the  gratitude  of  those  whom  he  served.  He 
was  a  well  informed,  courteous,  generous,  high-minded 
man.  He  esteemed  his  membership  in  this  Order  as  a 
privilege  and  an  honor.  He  regretted  that  his  duties 
during  the  closing  years  of  his  life  forbade  his  regular  at- 
tendance at  our  meetings.  Death  came  to  him  as  almost 
an  entire  surprise.  He  was  not  apparently  very  sick, 
but  a  sudden  change  carried  him  out  of  life,  to  the  regret 
of  the  many  who  knew  and  loved  him. 

He  had  taught  many  to  approach  death  as  a  process 
of  nature,  and  when  his  feet  touched  the  chilly  waters  of 
separation  between  this  life  and  the  next,  the  faith  which 
he  had  commended  to  others  served  to  give  himself  a 
safe  and  confident  passage  towards  the  "Land  that  is 
out  of  sight." 

ARTHUR  EDWARDS, 
THEODORE  H.   PATTERSON, 
HENRY  A.   PEARSONS, 

Committee. 


REUBEN    FREDSON   DYER. 

Major  and   Surgeon    One  Hundred  and  Fourth  Illinois   Infantry, 
United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Ottawa,  Illinois, 
January  25,  i8q6. 

OUR  Companion,    Reuben  Fredson   Dyer,    after  four 
days'  illness,  died  at  his  home  in  Ottawa,  Illinois, 
January   25,    1896,    aged    sixty-three    years.      His 
wife  Susan  A.  Goodridge  Dyer,  his  son  Edgar  G.  Dyer, 
and  daughter  Susie  L.  Dyer,  survive  to  mourn  the  loss 
of  a  loving  husband  and  tender  father. 

He  served  nearly  four  years  during  the  civil  war — first 
as  Captain  of  Company  K,  Twentieth  Illinois  Infantry,  in 
which  capacity  he  was  brave  and  efficient,  rendering 
meritorious  services  in  the  battle  at  Frederickton,  Mis- 
souri, and  Fort  Donelson,  Tennessee. 

272 


MEMORIALS.  273 

But  believing  he  could  better  serve  his.  country  in  the 
line  of  his  chosen  profession,  when  the  call  came  for 
three  hundred  thousand  more,  he  accepted  the  position 
of  Surgeon  in  one  of  the  new  regiments,  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fourth 'Illinois  Infantry,  and  was  mustered  as 
such,  August  25,  1862.  From  that  time  until  the  close 
of  the  war  he  was  constantly  on  duty  with  his  regiment, 
or  in  charge  of  brigade  and  division  field  hospitals,  and, 
after  the  fall  of  Savannah,  as  Acting  Medical  Director  of 
the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps,  General  Jefferson  C.  Davis, 
commanding. 

He  so  bore  himself  that  he  came  to  be  generally  con- 
sidered one  of  the  best  surgeons  in  the  Army  of  the  Cum- 
berland. To  his  care  and  skill  was  due  much  of  the  re- 
markable health  of  his  regiment — one  whose  death  roll 
in  battle  was  far  above,  and  whose  loss  by  disease  far 
below,  the  average  among  the  three  years'  regiments 
from  Illinois.  We  know  what  was  required  of  faithful 
surgeons  in  the  field,  at  the  front,  those  who  kept  up 
with  the  line  of  battle — how  great  were  their  responsibil- 
ities, how  onerous  and  exacting  were  their  duties,  requir- 
ing for  their  proper  performance  fine  discrimination, 
sound  judgment,  true  courage,  firm  will,  and  nerves  of 
steel.  Our  Companion  had  all  these,  and  yet  he  was 
gentle  as  a  child,  tender  and  sympathetic  as  a  woman. 
Often  his  near  comrades  have  seen  his  lip  quiver,  and 
the  tear  start,  as  he  told  of  the  suffering  and  the  heroism 
of  the  boys  who  came  under  his  care. 

He  never  yielded  to  the  roughening  influences  of  army 
life.  His  most  intimate  companions  on  the  march, 
around  the  bivouac  fire,  or  at  the  mess  table,  never 
heard  from  him  an  expression  that  might  not  have  been 
used  with  propriety  in  the  presence  of  any  woman.  His 
idea  was,  the  soldier  should  be  none  the  less  a  gentle- 


274  MEMORIALS. 

man.  He  was  courteous  to  all,  yet  firm  in  the  perform- 
ance of  his  duties.  His  nature  was  cordial  and  sincere, 
his  sympathies  broad,  his  courage  and  patriotism  unfal- 
tering. He  was  a  brave  soldier,  a  noble  man,  a  warm 
friend  and  a  true  comrade. 

"To  know  him  was  to  love  him." 

He  was  mustered  out  of  the  service,  June  6,  1865, 
and  returned  to  his  home  in  Ottawa,  where,  ripened  by 
his  experience  in  the  army,  he  soon  had  an  extensive  and 
lucrative  practice,  and  as  it  had  been  in  the  war,  so  dur- 
ing the  years  since,  he  was  always  "  on  duty,"  and  was  at 
his  post  when  the  final  summons  came. 

For  him,  the  bugle's  call,  "  Lights  Out,"  did  not  an- 
nounce unending  night,  but  was  the  reveille  at  the  dawn 
of  eternal  day. 

JOHN  H.   WIDMER, 
ALEXANDER  C.   McCLURG, 
SAMUEL  C.   PLUMMER, 

Committee. 


ARTHUR   CHARLES  DUCAT. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry  and  Brevet  Brigadier 

General,  United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Downer's 

Grove,  Illinois,  January  sq,  i8g6. 

TTjRTHUR  CHARLES  DUCAT  was  born  February 
f\  24,  1830,  near  Dublin,  Ireland,  to  which  place  his 
^"^  father  had  some  years  before  removed  from  Scot- 
land. In  Dublin  he  enjoyed  the  benefits  of  a  solid  and 
practical  education.  Before  reaching  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  he  resolved  to  come  to  America;  he  carried  out  that 
purpose  and  eventually  took  up  his  permanent  abode  at 
Chicago.  Here  and  hereabouts  he  spent  some  time  in 
study  and  field  work  as  a  civil  engineer  before  entering 
upon  his  lifelong  pursuit — that  of  fire  assurance.  In  this 
vocation  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he  was  fast  gaining 

275 


276  MEMORIALS. 

the  respect  of  his  associates  and  superiors,  and  through 
the  discipline  of  obedience  fast  acquiring  the  capacity  for 
leadership. 

In  1861  he  heard  the  call  of  his  adopted  country,  and 
gave  to  her  appeal  a  clear  and  instant  response.  Enlist- 
ing at  Chicago,  April  i/th,  he  was,  a  few  days  later, 
mustered  into  the  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry  Volunteers. 
Promoted  Second  Lieutenant  he  became  Adjutant  of  that 
regiment  May  2,  1861;  he  was  commissioned  Captain  of 
Company  A,  August  i,  1861;  Major,  September  24,  1861; 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  April  I,  1862.  During  the  period  of 
his  duty  with  the  Twelfth  Illinois  he  served  in  Southern 
Illinois,  Missouri,  Kentucky  and  in  the  movements  of 
General  Grant's  forces  in  Tennessee  and  Mississippi,  and 
was  especially  distinguished  at  the  siege  and  capture  of 
Fort  Donelson.  But  shortly  after  the  taking  of  Corinth 
there  opened  for  Lieutenant  Colonel  Ducat  that  larger 
military  career  for  which  by  character  and  education  he 
was  so  admirably  fitted — a  career  in  which  he  was  des- 
tined to  render  great  service  to  the  Union  cause.  De- 
tached from  his  regiment  he  was  ordered  upon  staff  duty 
at  the  headquarters  of  Major  General  E.  O.  C.  Ord,  and 
with  that  officer  was  present  at  the  operations  near  luka 
in  September,  1862. 

At  the  Battle  of  Corinth  in  the  following  month  he 
served  under.  General  Rosecrans  as  Acting  Chief  of  Staff 
and  Chief  of  Grand  Guards  and  Outposts  at  the  head- 
quarters of  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  an  active  and 
responsible  position  as  understood  and  filled  by  so  intel- 
ligent and  enterprising  an  officer.  Sparing  in  this  ardu- 
ous service  neither  labor  nor  personal  risk,  he  did  much 
to  improve  and  regulate  that  important  branch  of  the 
service. 

When  General  Rosecrans  on  October  24,   1862,  was 


MEMORIALS.  2/7 

ordered  by  the  War  Department  to  relieve  General  Buell 
after  the  Battle  of  Perryville,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Ducat 
accompanied  him  to  Bowling  Green,  and  was  assigned 
to  duty  as  Chief  of  Staff  and  Assistant  Inspector  General 
at  the  headquarters  of  the  forces  afterwards  known  as 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland.  He  continued  to  act  as 
Chief  of  Staff  until  November  13,  1862,  when  he  was 
relieved  in  that  position  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  As- 
sistant Adjutant  General  Julius  P.  Garesche.  To  these 
new  duties  Colonel  Ducat  brought  the  same  qualities  of 
activity,  courage  and  thoroughness  which  had  distin- 
guished him  under  the  same  commander  in  his  former 
service. 

With  Chattanooga  as  its  objective  point  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland,  rested  and  reorganized,  marched  out  of 
Nashville  to  meet  and  drive  back  General  Bragg  at  the 
Battle  of  Stone's  River,  December  31,  1862.  After  the 
occupancy  of  Murfreesboro  there  occurred  in  June,  1863, 
the  nine  days'  campaign  of  Tullahoma.  During  the  fol- 
lowing September  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  was  called 
upon  to  perform  those  laborious,  strategic  marches  which 
finally  forced  the  abandonment  of  Chattanooga  by  the 
Confederate  Army,  and  brought  on  the  Battle  of  Chicka- 
mauga.  For  brave  and  meritorious  conduct  at  Chicka- 
mauga  he  was  honorably  mentioned  by  General  Rose- 
crans  in  his  official  report  of  that  momentous  event,  as  "a 
faithful  officer — brave,  prompt  and  energetic  in  action." 

Officers  who  served  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland 
at  this  period  unite  in  saying  that  to  the  energy  and  or- 
ganizing skill  of  Colonel  Ducat,  and  to  his  active  exam- 
ple of  fidelity,  was  due  in  large  part  the  efficiency  of  the 
Grand  Guard  and  Outpost  service  of  that  army.  It  can 
be  added  that  the  general  efficiency  and  discipline  of  the 
same  army  were  largely  advanced  by  the  able  and  con- 


278  MEMORIALS. 

scientious   performance  of  his  duties   in    the   Inspector 
General's  Department. 

Upon  the  succession  of  General  Thomas  to  the  com- 
mand of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  Colonel  Ducat 
was  retained  on  duty  in  his  former  position,  and  on  Jan- 
uary 9,  1864,  was  announced  in  general  orders  as  Inspec- 
tor General  of  the  Department. 

Broken  in  health  by  the  fatigues  and  exposures  of  the 
previous  years,  Colonel  Ducat  found  himself  no  longer 
physically  able  to  bear  the  hardships  of  active  service, 
and  resigning  his  commission  he  returned  to  his  home  at 
Chicago  in  February,  1864.  From  that  time  to  the 
moment  of  his  death,  January  2gth,  of  the  present  year, 
his  friends  and  fellow  citizens  can  bear  testimony  to  his 
high  character  and  exemplary  conduct  in  every  relation 
of  life.  His  services  in  the  war  were  appropriately  recog- 
nized by  the  Brevet  of  Brigadier  General  of  Volunteers. 
The  Commandery  will  remember  him  as  its  fourth 
Commander,  and  remember  also  the  loving  and  repeated 
hospitality  with  which  he  welcomed  his  Companions  to 
Lindenwald,  his  beautiful  home  at  Downer's  Grove. 
Present  at  the  organization  of  this  Commandery  he  sym- 
pathized with  all  its  aspirations,  all  its  joys  and  sorrows 
during  its  entire  existence. 

In  concluding  this  brief  memorial  of  affection  and 
respect,  we  desire  to  place  upon  record  our  deep  sense 
of  the  loss  sustained  by  his  family,  by  his  personal  friends, 
and  by  our  Commandery  in  the  death  of  our  late  Com- 
panion and  friend.  GEORGE  L.  PADDOCK, 

JOHN  MCARTHUR, 
JOSEPH  B.   LEAKE, 
RICHARD  S.   TUTHILL, 
EPHRAIM  A.   OTIS, 

Committee. 


JAMES  HUBERT  McVICKER. 

Member  of  the   Third  Class.     Died  at   Chicago,   Illinois, 
March  7,  1896. 

/tAMES  HUBERT  McVICKER,  who  died  in  this 
city  the  7th  of  March,  1896,  was  the  oldest 
*^  theatrical  manager  in  the  United  States  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  born  in  the  city  of  New 
York,  February  14,  1822,  of  Scotch-Irish  parentage,  and 
his  family  moved  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  1837,  where  he 
learned  the  printer's  trade.  He  was  a  studious  youth 
and  occupied  his  leisure  hours  in  study.  In  1843  he  first 
appeared  on  the  mimic  stage  in  the  St.  Charles  Theatre, 
New  Orleans,  and  five  years  later  became  the  leading 
comedian  in  Mr.  John  B.  Rice's  theatre  in  Chicago.  In 
1852  he  made  a  professional  tour  through  this  country, 

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280  MEMORIALS. 

and  also  visited  Great  Britain,  appearing  in  Yankee 
characters.  He  built  in  1857  a  theatre  (McVicker's)  on 
the  spot  where  now  stands  the  theatre  of  that  name. 
The  former  house  was  destroyed  in  the  great  fire  of  1871, 
and  was  immediately  rebuilt.  In  1885  it  was  remodelled 
and  improved  in  its  internal  construction.  He  became 
a  manager  in  1857,  and  continued  as  such  to  the  time  of 
his  death. 

Mr.  McVicker  was  a  politician  but  never  a  partisan, 
and  he  was  nominally  a  democrat  all  his  life.  When  the 
war  of  the  rebellion  broke  out,  although  affiliated  in 
politics  with  men,  a  large  portion  of  whom  were  strenu- 
ously opposed  to  all  war  measures,  he  allied  himself  to 
the  Senator  Douglas  faction  and  at  once  gave  his  earnest 
support  to  the  Union  cause.  Two  days  after  President 
Lincoln  had  issued  his  call  for  7 5,000  volunteers,  he  was 
one  of  the  prime  movers  in  calling  a  mass  meeting  of  the 
loyal  citizens  of  Chicago  to  raise  volunteer  troops.  He 
offered  to  present  a  silk  flag  to  the  first  full  company  re- 
cruited, and  Captain  Hardin's  company  of  Infantry  be- 
came its  possessor.  His  zeal  in  the  patriotic  work  of 
raising  troops  continued,  and  when  it  became  necessary 
later  to  obtain  money  by  subscription  to  carry  on  the 
work,  at  a  mass  meeting  of  citizens  held  for  that  purpose 
he  moved  to  place  four  subscription  lists  in  the  hands  of 
solicitors  for  $1,000,  $500,  $250  and  $100  respectively, 
pledging  himself  to  head  each  of  the  lists.  Later  in  the 
war  he  paid  for  two  substitutes;  one  he  never  saw  again, 
the  other  reported  to  him  after  the  close  of  the  war,  poor 
and  maimed,  having  lost  a  leg  in  battle.  While  this 
man  was  in  Chicago  for  some  years,  Mr.  McVicker  looked 
after  his  welfare. 

He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  great  Sanitary  Fair 
held  in  Chicago  in    1864.      After  the  close   of  the  war, 


MEMORIALS.  28 1 

when  the  Veterans  of  the  city  and  county  found  it  neces- 
sary to  raise  money  by  subscription  to  defray  the  ex 
penses  of  Decoration  Day,  Mr.  McVicker,  although  then 
in  moderate  financial  circumstances,  gave  as  liberally  as 
any  other  citizen,  and  when  the  money  subscribed  was 
being  paid,  he  would  say,  "Boys,  if  you  are  short  before 
you  get  through  call  again."  In  1886  he  was  .elected  an 
honorary  or  Third  Class  member  of  this  Commandery. 
The  honor  conferred  on  him  was  fully  appreciated,  he 
esteeming  it  a  high  privilege  to  be  thus  associated  with 
officers  who  had  served  in  the  war. 

For  a  quarter  of  a  century  before  'his  death  he  labored 
hard  to  lift  the  legitimate  drama  to  a  higher  plane. 
Some  fifteen  years  ago  he  wrote  a  paper,  "The  Press, 
the  Pulpit  and  the  Stage,"  which  he  delivered  as  a 
lecture  in  this  city,  and  afterwards  to  large  audi- 
ences in  St.  Louis,  Cincinnati,  Louisville,  New  York, 
Philadelphia,  and  other  cities.  The  paper  was  thought- 
ful, of  marked  ability,  and  was  always  well  received  by 
his  hearers. 

Mr.  McVicker  in  many  respects  was  a  rare  man.  He 
possessed  much  practical  intelligence  and  independ- 
ence of  thought  and  action.  Public  spirited,  he  always 
favored  any  measures  that  were  designed  for  the  public 
good.  Decided  in  his  convictions,  earnest  and  strong  in 
his  purposes,  simple  in  his  tastes,  a  hater  of  shams,  of 
sturdy  integrity,  genial  and  generous  in  disposition,  un- 
ostentatious in  his  benefactions  to  the  poor  and  unfortu- 
nate, especially  to  those  in  the  dramatic  profession;  he 
was  a  conspicuous  citizen,  a  loyal  friend,  a  kind  father 
and  a  devoted  husband.  Of  such  a  man  it  can  be  truly 
said,  that  the  world  was  the  better  for  his  having  lived 
in  it. 

His  Companions  in  this  Commandery,  deeply  deplor- 


282  MEMORIALS. 

ing  the  loss  they  have  sustained  in  his  death,  extend  to 
his  bereaved  family  their  sincere  sympathy  and  condolence. 

AUGUSTUS   L.   CHETLAIN, 
ALFRED  T.   ANDREAS, 
JOHN  T.   McAuLEY, 

Committee. 


ORRIN  CHARLES  TOWNE. 

First  Lieutenant    Eleventh    Illinois  Infantry,    United  States   Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Pensacola,   Florida,   Afril  /j>,   i8gb. 

IN   MEMORY  of  Companion,    First  Lieutenant   Orrin 
Charles    Towne.        Born    in    Pennsylvania  in    1841. 
Died  at  Pensacola,    Florida,   April   13,    1896.      The 
parents    of    Companion    Towne    settled    in    Winnebago 
County,  Illinois,  when  he  was  a  child,  and  he  there  grew 
to  manhood  upon  the  parental  farm,  obtaining  such  edu- 
cation as  the  common  schools  of  that  day  afforded. 

When  the  attack  was  made  on  Fort  Sumter  he  was 
but  nineteen  years  of  age,  but,  having  acquired  some 
knowledge  of  military  affairs  as  a  member  of  Ellsworth's 
famous  Zouaves,  he  was  better  equipped  for  the  duties 
of  a  soldier  in  the  war  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union 

283 


284  MEMORIALS. 

than  most  of  the  young  men  of  his  day  and  age.  He 
was  alive  to  the  necessities  of  his  country,  and  was 
among  the  first  to  offer  his  services  in  defense  of  its  in- 
stitutions and  its  flag. 

He  enlisted  April  24,  1861,  and  was  made  Corporal 
in  Company  D  of  the  Eleventh  Illinois  Infantry,  com- 
manded first  by  the  brave  and  chivalric  W.  H.  L. 
Wallace,  and  later  by  the  heroic  Ransom.  His  first  en- 
listment was  for  three  months,  but  on  July  30,  1861, 
Companion  Towne's  Company  was  reorganized  and 
mustered  into  service  for  three  years,  at  which  time  he 
was  made  a  Second  Lieutenant,  and  he  was  promoted 
First  Lieutenant  on  October  3,  1863,  which  rank  he  held 
until  mustered  out  of  service  on  July  29,  1864.  During 
the  year  1862  Companion  Towne  was  selected  for  staff 
duty,  and  in  that  capacity  served  chiefly  on  the  staff  of 
Major  General  John  McArthur,  until  his  impaired  health 
in  1864  disabled  him  from  active  service. 

At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  service,  the  same 
year,  he  was  confined  in  the  Officers'  Hospital  at 
Memphis,  where  he  was  mustered  out,  but  he  concluded 
to  remain  at  Memphis  in  the  hope  of  regaining  his 
health  and  being  able  to  re-enter  the  service.  During 
the  period  of  his  convalescence  at  Memphis  he  assisted 
in  organizing  a  number  of  militia  regiments  for  defensive 
duty,  and  in  one  of  such  commands  he  held  the  rank  of 
Major. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Companion  Towne  settled  at 
Pecatonica,  Winnebago  County,  Illinois,  and  was  there 
engaged  in  the  drug  business,  occupying  at  the  same 
time  the  position  of  Postmaster.  In  1885,  having  re- 
moved to  Chicago,  he  was  appointed  to  a  position  in  the 
office  of  the  State  Grain  Inspector,  and  thereafter  Chi- 
cago was  his  home. 


MEMORIALS.  285 

Companion  Towne  was  married  at  Rockford,  Illinois, 
June  6,  1865,  to  Miss  Aurelia  Crary,  who  survives  him. 
During  the  period  of  Lieutenant  Towne's  service  in  the 
army  he  suffered  from  a  severe  attack  of  pneumonia,  the 
effects  of  which  continued  during  all  the  remaining  years 
of  his  life.  In  1892  his  physical  condition  had  become 
so  serious  that  in  order  to  preserve  his  life  he  submitted 
to  surgical  treatment,  the  result  of  which  was  one  of  the 
marvels  of  modern  surgery.  He  then  knew  that  the 
span  of  his  life  was  necessarily  brief,  and  with  but  one 
chance  in  a  thousand  of  surviving  the  severe  surgical 
operation,  he  called  to  his  aid  that  indomitable  pluck 
and  steadfastness  of  purpose  so  characteristic  of  the  man 
as  a  soldier  in  the  line  of  his  duty,  and  bravely  and  un- 
hesitatingly took  the  one  chance.  This  episode  in  the 
life  of  Companion  Towne  displayed  qualities  so  heroic 
and  a  purpose  so  resolute  as  to  enlist  the  admiration  as 
well  as  the  sympathy  of  all  who  knew  him.  This  treat- 
ment was  in  a  measure  successful,  and  he  so  far  recovered 
as  to  be  able  to  make  a  trip  to  Southern  California,  and 
after  a  partial  recovery  in  that  climate  he  returned  to 
Chicago  in  June,  1895;  but  soon  thereafter,  having  con- 
tracted a  severe  cold,  in  the  hope  of  relief  he  went  to 
Pensacola,  Florida,  where  his  strength  gradually  failed 
until  April  13,  1896,  when  the  final  summons  came  to 
him. 

Companion  Towne  was  in  the  fullest  sense  a  self- 
made  man.  The  years  which  otherwise  might  have  been 
devoted  to  the  completion  of  his  education  were  given 
to  the  service  of  his  country,  and  at  the  close  of  the  war 
he  found  himself  broken  in  health  as  well  as  poor  in 
pocket.  Yet  he  was  equal  to  every  emergency,  and 
wherever  he  went  and  wherever  he  was  known  he  com- 
manded the  respect  and  confidence  of  every  one.  As  a 


286  MEMORIALS. 

soldier  he  was  aggressive,  fearless  and  uncompromising; 
in  peace  he  was  gentle,  courteous  and  generous  to  a 
fault.  His  was  a  manly  spirit,  and  to  his  family  and 
friends  his  life  was  a  benediction.  His  patriotism  was 
intense,  and  his  sense  of  justice,  manhood  and  right  was 
of  the  highest  order. 

Companion  Towne  was  prominent  in  Masonic  and  in 
Grand  Army  circles,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Crusader 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and  of  Nevius  Post, 
G.  A.  R. ,  of  Rockford.  He  was  also  prominent  in 
political  circles,  where  his  fidelity  and  wise  counsel  were 
recognized  and  appreciated. 

In  compliance  with  one  of  his  last  requests  this  brave 
and  loving  friend  was  laid  to  rest  in  the  cemetery  at 
Rosehill,  near  all  that  was  mortal  of  his  old  commander 
and  comrade,  General  T.  E.  G.  Ransom. 

In  the  death  of  Lieutenant  Towne  the  Commandery 
of  the  State  of  Illinois  loses  a  Companion  whose  record 
as  a  soldier  was  above  reproach,  whose  character  as  a 
citizen  was  unsullied,  and  whose  friendship  was  dear  to 
us  all.  We  hold  his  memory  in  reverential  respect,  and 
to  his  widow  and  family  we  tender  our  sincere  and 
affectionate  sympathy. 

JOHN  H.   STIBBS, 
FRANCIS  A.   RIDDLE, 
EDWARD  A.   BLODGETT, 

Committee. 


NICHOLAS  GREUSEL. 

Colonel    Thirty-sixth   Illinois   Infantry,    United   States     Volunteers. 
Died  at  Aurora,  Illinois,  April  25,  180,6. 

I  OLONEL  Nicholas  Greusel  died  at  Aurora,  Illinois, 
\^_  Saturday,  April  25,  1896.  He  was  born  at  Blies- 
kastie,  Germany,  July  4,  1817,  and  received  a  fair  edu- 
cation there.  In  1834  his  father  emigrated  to  the  United 
States  with  his  wife  and  ten  children,  and  Nicholas  at 
once  commenced  supporting  himself,  taking  any  work 
he  could  procure,  and  at  all  times  performing  it  well 
and  faithfully. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Mexican  War,  he  was  em- 
ployed in  Detroit  by  Rice,  Coffin  &  Co.,  lumber  mer- 
chants, and  had  been  Captain  and  Major  of  local  mili- 
tary organizations.  He  raised  a  company  for  the  First 

287 


288  MEMORIALS. 

Regiment,  Michigan  Volunteers,  and  was  commissioned 
as  Captain  of  Company  D.  He  served  with  distinction 
through  the  war,  and  won  the  reputation  of  taking  better 
care  of  his  men  than  any  other  officer  of  the  command. 

Returning  to  his  old  position,  he  still  retained  his  in- 
terest in  military  affairs,  and  served  as  Captain,  and  after- 
wards Lieutenant  Colonel,  of  the  First  Battalion  of  City 
Guards.  In  1847  he  was  Superintendent  of  the  City 
Water  Works,  and  in  1848  Inspector  General  of  Lumber 
for  the  State  of  Michigan. 

By  an  unfortunate  investment,  he  lost  the  modest 
competency  acquired  by  hard  work,  and  found  employ- 
ment with  the  Michigan  Central  and  afterwards  with  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  Company.  He 
left  their  employ  in  1861,  recruited  a  company  at  Aurora, 
and  was  mustered  into  the  three  months'  service,  April 
25,  1861,  as  Major  of  the  Seventh  Illinois  Infantry  Vol- 
unteers; served  at  Alton,  St.  Louis,  Cairo  and  Mound 
City,  and  was  mustered  out  July  25,  1861,  on  expiration 
of  term  of  service.  September  23,  1861,  he  was  mus- 
tered in  as  Colonel,  of  the  Thirty-sixth  Illinois  Infantry 
Volunteers,  and  commanded  that  regiment,  or  the  brigade 
of  which  it  was  a  part,  until  February  7,  1863,  when, 
broken  in  health  and  unable  longer  to  endure  the  hard- 
ships of  military  life,  he  tendered  his  resignation,  which 
was  reluctantly  accepted  by  his  superiors.  During  this 
period  the  regiment  had  been  engaged  in  the  battles  of 
Pea  Ridge,  Perrysville,  Stone's  River,  and  many  minor 
engagements  and  skirmishes,  and  through  Colonel  Greu- 
sel's  drill  and  discipline,  combined  with  a  tender  and 
almost  fatherly  care  of  the  men,  had  attained  a  glorious 
renown  and  reputation,  which  it  preserved  throughout 
the  war. 

As  soon  as  Colonel  Greusel's  health  was  partially  re- 


MEMORIALS.  289 

stored,  he  engaged  in  railway  construction,  afterwards  in 
general  business  at  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa,  and  in  1893 
retired  from  business  and  returned  to  Aurora.  He  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  June  2,  1886, 
through  the  Nebraska  Commandery,  transferred  to  the 
Iowa  Commandery,  and  April  16,  1894,  to  the  Illinois 
Commandery. 

Colonel  Greusel  was  a  noble  type  of  those  men,  born 
in  foreign  lands,  who  gave  to  their  adopted  country  a 
love  and  devotion  which  was  strong  even  unto  death, 
and  an  example  which  will  not  be  forgotten.  His  mem- 
ory will  be  preserved  in  the  hearts  of  his  fellow  soldiers 
until  we,  too,  shall  have  passed  away,  and  in  the  archives 
of  our  Commandery  our  sons  and  their  sons  will  read  his 
record. 

To  his  wife,  his  loved  companion  for  nearly  fifty- 
seven  years,  and  to  his  children,  we  tender  our  heartfelt 

sympathies. 

JOHN  LYNCH, 
JOHN  SARGENT, 
ALFRED  T.  ANDREAS, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  POTWIN  MORGAN. 

Died  at  Ashevtlle,   North    Carolina,   June  14,   1896. 

*TI.GAIN  we  of  a  younger  generation  are  called  upon  to 
£\  mourn  the  death  of  the  "early  loved  and  lost." 
^s~  William  Potwin  Morgan  was  born  in  Rockford, 
Illinois,  December  7,  1865,  and  died  at  Asheville,  North 
Carolina,  June  14,  1896.  After  completing  his  studies 
in  the  public  schools,  he  spent  some  time  in  Lafayette 
College,  after  which  he  took  a  special  course  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  finished  his  edu- 
cation abroad,  chiefly  at  Coblentz  and  Vienna.  He  made 
a  specialty  of  chemistry,  and  upon  his  return  took  charge 
of  that  department  for  the  Chicago  Varnish  Company. 
He  was  also  a  director  of  said  company,  where  he  en- 
deared himself  to  both  the  officials  and  employes,  and  in 

290 


MEMORIALS. 

his  death  they  sincerely  mourn  a  pleasant  companion  and 
true  friend.  He  was  married  in  October,  1893,  and 
leaves  a  wife  and  one  boy.  As  a  Companion  of  this 
Commandery  he  was  beloved  by  all,  and  it  may  truly  be 
said  of  "Billy"  that  "none  knew  him  but  to  love  him." 
In  his  death  we  all  feel  that  we  have  lost  an  earnest 
friend  and  brother.  To  his  wife  and  son,  also  his  father 
and  family,  we  tender  our  sincere  sympathy  in  this  their 
sad  bereavement,  and  now,  as  we  pay  this  last  tribute  of 
regard  to  our  dead  Companion,  we  give  to  you,  our 
seniors,  our  earnest  gratitude  for  your  priceless  example 
of  "fidelity  to  friendship,"  which  we  beg  to  assure  you 
has  descended  from  the  fathers  to  the  sons. 

HUGH  R.   BELKNAP, 
GEORGE  C.   BALL, 
JOHN  T.    STOCKTON, 

Committee. 


CHARLES  EDWARD  BLIVEN. 

Captain  and  Assistant   Qtiartermaster   and  Brevet  Major,     United 
States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Philadelphia,   Pennsyl- 
vania,  August  29,  1896 

*TLNOTHER  of  our  comrades  and  a  Companion  of 
f\  this  Order  has  fallen.  Major  Charles  E.  Bliven 
^-"  died  in  Philadelphia  on  the  29th  of  August,  1896. 
He  was  born  in  Phelps,  Ontario  County,  New  York,  on 
the  2ist  of  September,  1835.  In  ms  early  youth  his 
parents  removed  to  Toledo,  Ohio,  which  was  thereafter 
his  home  until  he  came  to  Chicago,  in  1885. 

He  volunteered  early  in  the  first  year  of  the  rebellion. 
By  reason  of  his  practical  knowledge  of  telegraphy,  and 
his  well  earned  and  high  standing  as  an  expert  in  that 
art,  he  was  called  on  to  aid  in  effecting  the  organization 

292 


MEMORIALS.  2Q3 

of  our  military  telegraph  system,  and  his  intelligence  and 
energy  contributed  most  materially  to  its  development, 
perfection  and  efficiency. 

In  addition  to  his  duties  and  services  as  an  organizer 
and  director  of  that  system,  he  was  very  often  made  the 
confidant  and  adviser  of  the  highest  civil  and  military 
actors  in  that  critical  period  of  our  history,  and  affairs  of 
most  momentous  importance  were  committed  and  in- 
trusted to  him.  The  rare  discretion  and  efficiency  with 
which  he  met  and  discharged  every  duty  and  trust  justi- 
fied the  high  confidence  reposed  in  his  ability,  patriotism 
and  honor.  After  serving  a  year  and  a  half  in  that  field, 
he  was  prevailed  upon  by  Colonel  Moulton,  the  brother- 
in-law  of  General  Sherman  and  Senator  Sherman,  to 
consent  to  be  transferred  to  the  less  dangerous,  but  no 
less  arduous,  responsible  and  important  duties  of  the 
Quartermaster's  Department  under  General  Meigs.  Colo- 
nel Moulton,  who  was  connected  with  that  branch  of  the 
service,  residing  in  Toledo  before  and  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  rebellion,  knew  Major  Bliven  intimately,  and 
appreciated  his  ability,  systematic  methods,  accuracy 
and  integrity — qualities  so  valuable  and  essential  in  the 
Quartermaster's  Department.  Major  Bliven  had  declined 
Colonel  Moulton's  solicitation  to  enter  that  department 
at  the  beginning  of  the  rebellion,  believing  he  could  ren- 
der more  efficient  service  in  another  field;  and  the 
benefit  to  his  country  resulting  from  his  achievements 
justified  his  determination. 

He  served  in  the  Quartermaster's  Department  for 
over  four  years,  being  mustered  out  of  the  service  over 
a  year  after  the  close  of  the  war,  with  rank  of  Major. 

The  statement  of  one  fact  alone  will  illustrate  the 
remarkable  accuracy,  efficiency  and  integrity  which  char- 
acterized his  discharge  of  the  duties  in  that  department. 


294  MEMORIALS. 

The  accountants  of  the  United  States  in  the  auditor's 
office  claimed  to  find  an  error  of  only  thirty-three  cents 
in  his  accounts,  extending  over  a  period  of  over  four 
years,  and  involving  the  disbursement  of  many  millions 
of  dollars.  It  is  believed  that  a  parallel  case  cannot  be 
found  in  the  accounts  of  any  other  disbursing  officer  in 
the  Quartermaster's  Department  during  the  rebellion. 

Soon  after  he  was  mustered  out  of  the  military  service 
of  the  United  States  he  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness. In  that  he  attained  eminent  success.  It  is  a  trib- 
ute to  his  ability,  application  and  industry  that  he  stood 
in  the  front  rank  of  that  profession.  Few  investigated 
as  thoroughly  the  principles  underlying  sound  insurance; 
few  had  his  faculty  of  compiling  and  arranging  statistics, 
and  deducing  therefrom  the  laws  by  which  insurance  is 
governed. 

He  was  a  diligent  student  of  the  history  of  his  own 
country,  not  only  of  the  past,  but  of  that,  in  making  which 
he  bore  so  honorable  and  influential  a  part.  He  was 
a  thoughtful  writer,  and  his  style  was  remarkable  for  its 
conciseness.  His  contributions  on  many  subjects  relat- 
ing to  insurance  are  numerous  and  valuable.  He  was 
decided  and  tenacious  in  his  opinions,  which  were  formed 
deliberately  and  after  careful  investigation,  and  on  lines 
of  independent  thought. 

He  possessed  a  mind  remarably  quick  and  clear  in 
apprehension,  fertile  in  developing  suggestions  into  prin- 
ciples extending  in  scope,  importance  and  influence  far 
beyond  the  conception  of  the  one  from  whom  the  sug- 
gestion was  received. 

His  intense  and  unremitting  study  and  mental  appli- 
cation accelerated,  if  it  did  not  cause,  the  disease  that 
ended  his  life. 

Lives  of  some  men  are  measured  by  the  years  of  their 


MEMORIALS. 

existence;  others  by  their  attainments,  usefulness,  and 
what  they  accomplish.  His  life  belonged  to  the  latter 
class. 

He  was  a  steadfast  friend;  and  in  all  relations  of  life 
was  governed  by  broadest  tolerance  and  generous  char- 
ity. No  one  ever  heard  him  say  anything  unkind  or  un- 
favorable of  another. 

With  sorrowing  hearts  we  sympathize  with  his  family 
in  their  great  affliction,  and  offer  this,  our  sincere  tribute 
to  his  memory  and  to  his  worth  as  a  man,  a  soldier,  a 
citizen,  comrade  and  Companion  of  our  Order. 

MYRON  H.  BEACH, 
EUGENE  GARY, 

A.    F.   DEAN, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM    AVERY. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Ninety-fifth  Illinois  Infantry,   United  States  Vol- 
unteers.    Died  at  Woodstock,  Illinois,  November  26,  i8g6. 

\  A  I RONG  not  the  dead  with  tears.  A  glorious,  bright 
*  *i  to-morrow  endeth  a  weary  life  of  pain  "and  sorrow. 
Swiftly  and  surely,  but  alas!  too  closely,  we  hear  the 
clanging  of  that  dread  summons  which  calls  from  our 
ranks  some  one  who  has  been  esteemed,  honored  and 
loved.  The  twilight  of  our  earthly  course  draws  on 
apace,  and  in  the  glinting  rays  of  the  fading  sun,  we 
watch  with  tearful  eyes  the  passing  of  some  loved  one  to 
"The  undiscovered  country,  from  whose  bourn  no  trav- 
eler returns." 

Colonel  Avery  died  at  his  home  in  Woodstock,  Illi- 
nois; he  had  a  long  and  painful  illness  about  three  years 

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MEMORIALS. 

ago,  which  greatly  undermined  his  constitution,  and 
although  he  rallied  again,  yet  he  did  not  fully  recover 
from  its  effects.  His  last  illness  dated  back  about  five 
weeks,  during  which,  in  spite  of  the  best  medical  atten- 
tion and  careful  nursing,  he  continued  to  decline,  and  on 
Monday  afternoon,  November  16,  1896,  he  passed  peace- 
fully away. 

Colonel  Avery  was  born  in  Erie  County,  Pennsylva- 
nia, July  10,  1825,  and  was,  therefore,  seventy-one  years 
and  four  months  old  at  his  death.  He  went  to  Marengo, 
Illinois,  in  the  fall  of  1857,  and  was  employed  by  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway  as  station  agent.  When 
President  Lincoln  called  to  arms  three  hundred  thousand 
men  in  1862,  Companion  Avery  needed  no  urging  to  in- 
duce him  to  respond  to  this  imperative  call.  He  left  the 
employ  of  the  Northwestern  and  immediately  enrolled 
his  name  among  his  country's  defenders.  On  the  organ- 
ization of  Company  A,  of  the  Ninety-fifth  Regiment,  Illi- 
nois Infantry  Volunteers,  he  was  elected  Captain  and 
mustered  on  the  4th  of  September,  1862.  On  the  24th 
of  January,  1863,  he  was  promoted  to  Major,  and  on  the 
death  of  Colonel  Humphrey  at  Guntown,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  Lieutenant  Colonel.  He  participated  with  his 
regiment  in  the  battles  of  Champion's  Hill,  Siege  of  Vicks- 
burg,  the  Red  River  Campaign,  Campaign  against  Price 
in  Arkansas  and  Missouri,  Nashville,  Mobile  and  others. 
He  was  wounded  in  the  charge  on  Vicksburg  on  May  22, 
1863,  and  was  sent  on  a  hospital  boat  to  Memphis,  and 
after  being  in  the  hospital  at  Memphis  some  time  was 
sent  home,  subsequently  rejoining  his  regiment  at  Nat- 
chez. He  remained  with  his  regiment,  participating  in 
its  marches,  battles  and  skirmishes  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  returning  to  Marengo  in  August,  1865,  and  resum- 
ing the  place  he  left  as  station  agent  of  the  Chicago  & 


2Q8  MEMORIALS. 

Northwestern  Railway.  In  1882  he  was  elected  County 
Clerk  of  McHenry  County,  moved  to  Woodstock,  Illinois; 
and  served  very  efficiently  and  acceptably  for  three  terms 
—  twelve  years. 

Colonel  Avery  was  married  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in 
1856,  to  Miss  Mary  P.  Camp.  Two  daughters  were  born 
to  them,  Mary  Ella  and  Katie.  The  latter  died  in  Wood- 
stock in  1886;  Ella  and  her  mother  survive  and  deeply 
mourn  the  death  of  an  affectionate  father  and  devoted 
husband. 

Colonel  Avery  was  eminently  social,  genial  and  gen- 
erous. He  was  always  popular  in  the  army.  Dignified, 
soldierly,  courageous  and  chivalrous,  he  had  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  his  superior  officers,  and  the  love  and 
respect  of  the  rank  and  file.  He  was  a  father  to  the 
"boys,"  always  looking  after  their  comfort  and  always 
their  friend.  He  was  known  throughout  the  regiment  as 
"Pap"  Avery — his  kindness  of  heart  often  overlooking 
the  minor  irregularities  of  the  march  or  camp,  so  long  as 
they  did  not  interfere  with  proper  military  discipline,  or 
with  a  soldier's  duty,  and  hence  he  won  the  familiar  ap- 
pellation of  "Pap  "  Avery,  and  the  boys  were  ever  ready 
to  do  cheerfully  for  him  what  they  would  be  reluctant  to 
do  for  others.  He  was  a  brave,  true-hearted,  big-brained 
soldier  and  comrade  in  arms;  like  Chevalier  Bayard  of 
old,  "A  knight  without  fear  and  without  reproach." 

We  shall  mourn  a  leader  gone,  a  wise  counsellor,  and 
the  hand-clasp  of  a  loved  friend.  The  Companions  of 
the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  extend  to  the 
bereaved  widow  and  daughter  their  sincerest  sympathy 
and  condolence  in  this  the  hour  of  their  trial  and  sorrow. 

JAMES  A.    SEXTON, 
H.    H.  THOMAS, 
ED.  A.   BLODGETT, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  TAYLOR. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster  One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth 

Illinois  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Wilmette, 

Illinois,    December  24,    1896. 

ON  December  24,    1896,    our  Companion   Lieutenant 
William  Henry  Taylor,  died  at  his  home  at  Wil- 
mette in  this  County,  the  immediate  cause  of  his 
death  being  paralysis,  although  he  had  been  in   failing 
health  for  some  months. 

He  was  born  at  Argyle,  New  York,  October  n, 
1834;  came  West  in  1859,  staying  some  time  at  Kanka- 
kee,  Illinois,  then  removing  to  Watseka,  Iroquois  County, 
where  he  became  Deputy  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of 
that  County. 

On  August    13,    1862,   he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 

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3OO  MEMORIALS. 

One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth  Regiment  Illinois  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  and  on  the  next  day  was  appointed  Quarter- 
master Sergeant,  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  and 
Regimental  Quartermaster  to  rank  from  July  12,  1864, 
and  continued  to  serve  in  that  capacity  until  June  20, 
1865,  when  he  was  mustered  out  with  his  regiment. 

Lieutenant  Taylor  was  a  faithful  and  efficient  soldier, 
discharging  every  duty  devolving  upon  him  loyally  and 
zealously.  Since  his  return  to  civil  life  he  has  had  an 
unusually  honorable  business  career,  having  been  for 
over  thirty  years  continuously  in  the  service  of  the  Hart- 
ford Fire  Insurance  Company,  occupying  during  these 
years  various  responsible  positions,  for  the  last  fifteen 
years,  and  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  that  of  Manager 
of  the  Loss  Department  of  that  Company  in  their  West- 
ern Department. 

He  leaves  surviving  him  his  widow  and  four  children, 
one  son  and  three  daughters,  all  married  and  living  at 
Wilmette,  with  whom  we  sympathize  in  their  great  be- 
reavement. We  who  knew  him  best  can  testify  to  his 
many  good  qualities.  He  was  a  good  soldier,  a  good 
citizen,  a  true  and  genial  friend.  His  loss  will  be  sin- 
cerely mourned  by  his  Companions  of  the  Loyal  Legion 
and  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  business  associates. 

W.  A.   MCLEAN, 
A.   J.   HARDING, 
GEO.   A.   HOLLOWAY, 

Committee. 


ABRAM  WILLIAMS. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster   Sixth  lozua    Cavalry,    United 
States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  January  6,  1897. 

etfPANION  Abram  Williams  was  born  in  Utica,  New 
York,  March  31,  1830.  He  died  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,,  January  6,  1897.  His  father  was  a  man  of 
business  prominence  and  one  of  the  Canal  Commissioners 
of  the  State  of  New  York.  His  paternal  grandfather 
was  a  prominent  minister  of  the  Baptist  faith.  His 
maternal  grandfather,  Rev.  Ezra  Barnum,  was  a  preacher 
and  soldier  of  the  Revolution.  From  such  ancestry 
naturally  came  to  him  the  courage,  determination,  high 
moral  purpose  and  spiritual  vigor,  which  were  the  con- 
spicuous elements  of  his  character. 

By  the  death  of  his  father,  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  he  was 


3O2  MEMORIALS. 

thrown  upon  his  own  resources,  and  thenceforward  made 
to  breast  the  battle  of  life  alone.  Going  to  the  city  of 
New  York  at  this  early  age,  a  stranger  and  alone,  he 
secured  employment  in  the  importing  house  of  Peter 
Murray.  Diligence  and  merit  found  proper  recognition 
here  and  deserved  advancement  followed.  At  the  age  of 
twenty  he  held  the  position  of  buyer  in  the  then  im- 
portant mercantile  house  of  William  H.  Gary  &  Co.  and 
in  1852  he  became  a  partner  in  the  house  of  Sheldon, 
Harris  &  Williams,  and  was  placed  in  charge  of  its  Paris 
branch.  Impaired  health  soon  after  compelled  him  to 
give  up  Paris  and  seek  a  different  climate  and  business. 

In  1856  he  settled  in  Dubuque,  Iowa — then  one  of 
the  leading  business  centres  of  the  West — and  opened 
a  general  store.  The  panic  of  the  following  year  in- 
volved him  in  the  general  ruin,  but  with  a  spirit  and 
courage  as  heroic  as  were  ever  found  in  battle,  he  in- 
sisted that  he  alone  should  suffer  by  the  failure  of  his 
venture,  and  by  industry,  economy  and  energy  finally 
succeeded  in  paying  every  creditor  in  full;  at  that  time  an 
instance  so  rare  as  to  be  conspicuous,  and  proper  to 
mention  here,  because  it  illustrates  the  quality  of  the  man. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  he 
promptly  resigned  the  position  of  Clerk  of  the  County  of 
Dubuque,  which  he  then  held,  and  entered  the  military 
service  of  his  country  as  First  Lieutenant  of  the  Sixth 
Iowa  Cavalry,  afterwards  becoming  Acting  Assistant 
Quartermaster  on  the  Staff  of  General  Scully.  While 
this  position  kept  him  away  from  the  front  and  the 
dangers  of  active  battle,  it  gave  opportunity  for  the  exer- 
cise of  those  fine  business  qualities,  that  firmness,  vigi- 
lance, incorruptible  and  persistent  honesty,  which  were  a 
part  of  his  nature.  His  service  in  the  position  named 
was  especially  efficient  and  valuable,  so  much  so  as  to 


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receive  meritorious  mention.  At  one  time,  becoming 
dissatisfied  with  the  dilatoriness  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  in  forwarding  supplies  to  the  front,  he  arbitrarily 
took  possession  of  the  road  for  and  in  the  name  of  the 
government,  and  ran  it  till  the  needs  of  the  army  had 
been  supplied,  thus  showing  that  not  all  of  courage  and 
generalship  was  at  the  front. 

In  1865,  he  again  settled  in  Dubuque  and  engaged 
in  the  insurance  business.  His  superior  administrative 
ability  was  soon  recognized,  and  he  was  made  Manager 
of  the  Yonkers  Insurance  Company  of  New  York.  That 
company  having  been  destroyed  by  the  great  Chicago 
fire,  he  was  soon  thereafter  made  Manager  of  the  Western 
Department  of  the  Continental  Insurance  Company  of 
New  York,  and  subsequently  Manager  of  the  Western 
Department  of  the  Connecticut  Insurance  Company, 
which  last  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
prominent  and  responsible  positions,  all,  which  he  filled 
with  signal  ability  and  success.  In  his  chosen  profession 
none  stood  higher,  and  among  his  business  associates  no 
one  was  more  highly  esteemed. 

Companion  Williams  was  active  but  unostentatious 
in  all  charitable  work.  He  possessed  a  deep  religious 
nature;  was  a  consistent  member  of  Grace  Episcopal 
Church  of  Chicago,  active  in  its  work  and  councils,  and 
was  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  had  been  for  twenty- 
five  years,  its  Senior  Warden. 

In  disposition  he  was  gentleness  itself.  In  his  inter- 
course with  his  fellows  he  was  kind,  courteous  and  con- 
siderate; sincere  in  friendship,  strong  in  conviction,  in 
integrity  complete. 

In  closing,  we  can  do  no  better  than  to  quote  from  a 
memorial  to  him  adopted  elsewhere: 

"  As  a  patriot  he  breasted   the   storm   of  war,    as   a 


3°4  MEMORIALS. 

business  man  he  was  faithful  to  every  trust;  as  a  Christian 

gentleman  he  stood  without  reproach." 

EUGENE  GARY, 
CHAS.  W.  DREW, 
A.   F.   DEAN, 

Committee. 


JOHN  EUGENE   SMITH. 

Brigadier  General  and  Brevet  Major  General,  United  States  Volun- 
teers, Colonel  {Retired}  and  Brevet  Major  General,  United 
States  Army.     Died  at   Chicago,  Illinois, 
January  2g,  i8g"j. 


AtOHN  EUGENE  SMITH  was  born  in  the  Canton  of 
.  Berne,  Switzerland,  August  3,  1816.  His  parents 
emigrated  to  America  and  settled  at  Philadelphia, 
December  24th  of  that  year.  While  a  young  man  he 
acquired  a  knowledge  of  watchmaking  and  the  jeweler's 
business,  a  pursuit  to  which  he  afterward  devoted  him- 
self. After  abiding  in  St.  Louis  for  several  years  he 
removed  in  1836  to  Galena,  where  he  was  residing  at  the 
opening  of  the  year  1861.  At  this  time  he  had  estab- 
lished himself  as  a  merchant,  had  gained  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  the  people  of  his  city  and  county,  and  had 

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been  elected  to  important  civic  office.  A  public  spirited 
citizen,  a  person  of  attractive  presence  and  inherited 
military  aptitudes,  he  had  already  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  a  local  military  company.  He  stood  out  plainly 
among  those  upon  whom  at  that  time  the  people  of  his 
part  of  the  state  were  fixing  their  eyes  as  leaders  in  the 
conflict  known  to  be  approaching.  The  records  of  this 
Commandery  show  that  he  reported  for  duty  at  Spring- 
field, as  Aide  to  Governor  Yates,  April  15,  1861;  was 
mustered  in  as  Colonel  Forty-fifth  Illinois  Infantry  Vol- 
unteers July  23,  1861;  honorably  discharged  December 

14,  1862;  accepted  appointment  as  Brigadier  General  of 
Volunteers,  December  15,  1862;  Brevetted  Major  General 
of  Volunteers,  January  12,  1865;  honorably  mustered  out 
of  the  Volunteer  service  April  30,   1866;  appointed  Col- 
onel Twenty-seventh   United  States   Infantry,  July   28, 
1866;    brevetted    Major    General    United  States    Army, 
March  2,  1867;  assigned  to  Fifteenth  Infantry,  December 

15,  1870;  transferred  to  Fourteenth  Infantry,  December 
20,   1870;  retired  as  Colonel  United  States  Army,  May 
19,   1881. 

These  dates  mark  a  space  of  nearly  twent}'  years  of 
volunteer  and  regular  service.  That  service  included 
the  operations  at  Henry  and  Donelson;  the  expedition 
up  the  Tennessee,  Shiloh,  Corinth  and  the  Mississippi 
Campaign,  the  Yazoo  expedition,  the  series  of  battles  in 
the  rear  of  Vicksburg,  and  the  siege  and  capture  of  Vicks- 
burg  itself;  also  Chattanooga,  the  Atlanta  and  Georgia 
Campaigns  and  the  march  with  Sherman  to  the  sea.  After 
these  events  in  the  war  for  Union,  there  came  to  him  the 
labors,  the  hazards  and  the  responsibilities  of  military 
life  upon  the  Indian  frontier— that  sad  yet  noble  and 
necessary  work  in  which  the  Army  of  the  United  States 
has  so  often  stood  as  sole  conservator  of  peace  and  law, 


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between  the  worst  passions  of  the  worst  men  of  two 
hostile  races.  In  that  duty  General  Smith  spent  the 
greater  part  of  the  closing  years  of  his  active  career. 

With  him,  command  of  men  was  a  real  and  actual 
thing.  His  conduct  of  the  forces  under  him,  whether  a  reg- 
iment, a  brigade,  a  division  or  a  district  of  independent 
posts,  as  at  Etowah,  appears  to  have  met  with  unvarying 
approval  from  his  superiors.  At  Donelson,  Wallace  com- 
mends him  for  meritorious  behavior  in  action;  at  Shiloh, 
Marsh;  at  Vicksburg,  McClernand.  In  July,  1864,  his 
Division  of  the  Fifteenth  Army  Corps  occupies  Allatoona 
Pass,  and  the  regions  round  about,  with  headquarters  at 
Cartersville.  General  Sherman  then  writes  to  him:  "I 
regard  Allatoona  of  the  first  importance  in  our  future 
plans,  it  is  a  second  Chattanooga.  I  will  soon  be  in 
motion  again,  and  will  feel  more  confidence  that  I  know 
you  are  at  Allatoona.  "  Many  years  after  the  sending  of 
this  letter,  General  Grant  in  his  Memoirs  speaks  of 
Smith's  Division  at  Missionary  Ridge.  He  says,  "J.  E. 
Smith,  with  two  brigades  charged  up  the  west  side  of  the 
ridge  to  the  support  of  Corse's  command  over  open 
ground  and  in  the  face  of  both  artillery  and  musketry, 
and  reached  the  very  parapet  of  the  enemy."  He  tells 
how  they  were  forced  back,  how  they  reformed,  and 
how  they  again  advanced  on  that  victorious  day. 

General  Smith  was  the  sixth  Commander  of  the  Com- 
mandery,  succeeding  General  Stiles.  He  was  deeply  in- 
terested in  all  its  objects,  and  appreciated  its  compan- 
ionships, but  latterly  was  prevented  by  failing  health 
from  attendance  at  its  meetings.  In  April  last  he  sum- 
moned his  waning  energies  to  visit  Galena,  in  order  to 
join  with  faltering  steps  in  the  ceremonies  there  held  in 
honor  of  the  memory  of  General  Grant.  From  that 
perilous  journey  he  returned  with  health  and  strength 


3O8  MEMORIALS. 

greatly  impaired.  At  last  the  long  evening  of  that  busy 
and  useful  life  neared  its  end;  and  the  end  was  January 
29,  1897.  He  died  at  his  home  amid  his  household  and 
kindred,  after  some  years  of  great  suffering  borne  with 
great  fortitude. 

The  hills  and  slopes  that  encompass  Galena  are  beau- 
tiful with  a  grace  and  roundness  denied  to  our  cities  of 
the  prairie.  One  of  those  gentle  elevations  is  called 
Greenwood.  There,  in  the  language  of  another,  his 
neighbor  and  friend,  "a  modest  but  expressive  monu- 
ment now  marks  the  grave  of  one  of  Galena's  most  dis- 
tinguished soldiers-' — John  E.  Smith.  This  Commandery 
desires  to  keep  his  name  and  faithful  services  in  enduring 
remembrance,  and  to  assure  his  family  of  its  deep  sym- 
pathy in  their  loss. 

GEO.  L.  PADDOCK, 
JOSEPH  B.  LEAKE, 
RICHARD  S.  TUTHILL, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  STEVENS  ROPER. 

Captain  and  Commissary  of  Subsistence  and  Brevet  Major,  United 

States   Volunteers.     Died  at   Rockford. 

Illinois.  February  j,  1897. 

^EORGE  STEVENS  ROPER  was  born  in  Worcester 
V^J  County,  Massachusetts,  on  January  28,  1832,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  in  Rockford,  Illinois,  at 
2:30  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  February  3,  1897,  had 
just  completed  his  sixty-fifth  year. 

From  his  native  place  when  a  boy  he  removed  with 
his  parents  to  Western  Pennsylvania,  and  there  grew  to 
young  manhood,  with  such  advantages  for  education  as 
the  schools  of  that  neighborhood  afforded. 

At  the  early  age  of  eighteen  years  he  began  the  seri- 
ous duties  of  life  as  a  teacher  in  the  common  schools  of 

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3IO  MEMORIALS. 

Pennsylvania,  and  later  became  a  clerk  in  mercantile 
business.  In  1854  he  removed  to  Springfield,  Illinois, 
where  he  became  a  clerk  and  bookkeeper  in  the  dry  goods 
establishment  of  S.  M.  Tinsley  &  Co.,  and  later  was  a 
partner  with  Edward  R.  Ulrich,  under  the  style  of  Ulrich 
&  Roper,  lumber  dealers,  and  conducted  the  business  of 
that  firm  at  Alton,  Illinois,  until  1859,  when  he  returned 
to  Springfield  and  again  engaged  in  business  there. 

It  was  during  the  years  of  his  residence  in  Springfield 
prior  to  1861,  that  Companion  Roper  established  friendly 
and  intimate  relations  with  Abraham  Lincoln,  Stephen 
A.  Douglas,  Richard  Yates  and  many  other  distinguished 
and  historic  men  who  made  the  capital  of  Illinois  famous 
in  that  era  as  the  gathering  place  of  many  of  the  greatest 
characters  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

Prior  to  1861  Roper  had  been  Secretary  of  the  Spring- 
field Library  Association,  and  it  was  his  relation  to  that 
organization  which  brought  him  into  confidential  inti- 
macy with  Douglas  and  Lincoln.  He  was  a  loyal  ad- 
mirer of  Senator  Douglas,  and  gave  to  that  distinguished 
citizen  his  hearty  support  in  the  memorable  campaign  of 
1858;  but  serious  thoughtfulness  of  the  political  issues  of 
that  day  as  they  were  presented  in  private  conversation 
and  public  discourse  by  our  martyred  President,  made 
him  an  enthusiastic  lover  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

It  is  an  easy  thing  to-day  for  one  reared  in  the  school 
of  Jeffersonian  democracy  to  condemn  human  slavery 
and  denounce  in  unmeasured  terms  the  unspeakable 
atrocity  of  the  fugitive  slave  law.  It  was  different  in 
1860.  The  manacles  of  tradition  then  still  had  their 
grasp  both  upon  the  old  and  the  young,  and  the  apostles 
of  human  liberty  were  regarded  as  a  band  of  disturbing 
fanatics  rather  than  the  forerunners  of  that  superb  na- 
tional life,  the  chief  glory  of  which  is  the  maintenance  of 


MEMORIALS.  311 

a  political  society  in  which  every  human  soul  shall  have 
the  same  rights  under  the  law,  and  the  same  untram- 
meled  opportunity  for  the  achievement  of  every  aspira- 
tion common  to  the  race  of  man. 

Companion  Roper  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  King 
Philip  of  the  Pequods,  and  from  that,  if  from  no  other 
ancestral  source,  he  had  inherited  a  love  of  human  free- 
dom and  hatred  of  everything  which  fetters  either  the 
action  or  destiny  of  the  individual.  How  natural  it  was 
then  for  such  a  spirit,  awakened  to  a  sense  of  duty  by 
the  swirl  of  the  task-master's  lash,  and  the  groans  of 
helpless  bondmen,  to  join  with  all  his  heart  and  all  his 
splendid  energy  in  that  wonderful  campaign  which  re- 
sulted in  the  election  of  Lincoln  to  the  Presidency  in 
November,  1860. 

It  was  under  such  circumstances  that  our  Companion 
sang  with  such  impressive  effect  the  songs  of  liberty,  and 
it  was  in  that  memorable  contest  that  by  a  charm  of 
manner  and  in  tones  of  melody  seldom  equaled,  he 
aroused  in  the  hearts  of  multitudes  impulses  which  will 
cease  to  beat  only  when  the  love  of  liberty  and  the  hope 
of  glory  no  longer  control  the  human  heart. 

When  the  cloud  of  war  came  in  1861,  and  the  great 
hero  of  his  young  manhood  called  for  men-at-arms  to 
defend  the  nation's  life,  Companion  Roper  was  swift  to 
offer  his  strength,  his  life  and  his  patriotic  services  under 
his  country's  flag.  His  first  services  were  rendered  under 
the  Military  Department  of  the  State  Government  of  Illi- 
nois, but  on  September  9,  1861,  he  was  commissioned  a 
Captain  and  Commissary  of  Subsistence  in  the  Union 
army,  and  reported  immediately  to  General  George  H. 
Thomas,  at  Crab  Orchard,  Kentucky,  for  duty.  From 
that  time  on  until  the  war  closed,  including  the  battles 
of  Mill  Springs,  Perryville  and  Chickamauga,  to  use  his 


312  MEMORIALS. 

own  words,  he  "  participated  in  all  the  marches  and 
campaigns  intervening  in  which  the  troops  under  the  im- 
mediate command  of  General  George  H.  Thomas  took 
any  part." 

He  continued  to  serve  on  the  personal  staff  of  General 
Thomas  until  subsequent  to  the  battle  of  Murfreesboro, 
when  he  was  assigned  first  to  the  staff  of  General  John 
M.  Schofield,  then  to  that  of  General  James  B.  Steed- 
man,  and  later  to  that  of  General  J.  M.  Brannan. 

On  May  24,  1864,  he  was  by  the  order  of  General 
Sherman  assigned  to  duty  on  the  military  railroads  cen- 
tering in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  was  thereafter  under 
the  immediate  command  of  General  D.  C.  McCallum. 

Companion  Roper,  after  the  battle  of  Mill  Springs, 
and  in  January,  1862,  was  brevetted  Major  and  Commis- 
sary of  Subsistence,  and  his  military  services  were  ren- 
dered under  that  rank  until  January  28,  1866,  when  he 
was  mustered  out.  He  returned  at  once  to  his  home 
and  engaged  in  business,  first  at  St.  Louis,  then  at  Alton, 
and  finally  located  at  Rockford,  in  this  State,  where  in 
1880  he  organized  the  Manufacturers  and  Merchants' 
Mutual  Insurance  Company,  and,  as  Secretary  of  that 
corporation,  he  conducted  with  great  success  its  business 
affairs  until  the  day  of  his  death. 

To  write  the  military  history  and  recount  the  military 
services  of  Companion  Roper,  would  be  to  recall  the 
splendid  triumphs  and  unsurpassed  achievements  of  that 
ever  brilliant  military  organization  known  to  history  as 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  to  assign  to  him  no 
inconspicuous  part  in  the  gallant  achievements  and 
meritorious  successes  of  that  heroic  command.  The 
services  which  he  gave  to  his  country  from  1861  to  1866 
were  a  part  of  those  unrequited  sacrifices  which  contrib- 
uted to  the  establishment  of  permanent  peace  in  our  own 


MEMORIALS.  313 

country  and  to  the  exaltation  of  our  country's  flag  and 
our  country's  name  in  other  lands.  They  were  the  sacri- 
fices and  services  of  an  heroic  soul  marching  steadfastly 
along  the  line  of  fully  appreciated  duty.  They  were  not 
given  grudgingly  or  hesitatingly,  but  were  given  spontan- 
eously, because  they  were  the  offering  of  a  patriotic 
heart,  and  courageously,  because  they  were  the  tribute 
of  a  knightly  spirit,  "without  fear  and  without  reproach," 
to  a  cause  that  was  righteous. 

Major  Roper  was  three  times  married;  first  to  Miss 
Louisa  B.  George  of  Pennsylvania,  who  died  in  Spring- 
field, Illinois,  after  there  had  been  born  to  them  three 
sons — Mahon  F. ,  now  deceased,  and  George  D.  and  Ed- 
ward U.  Roper,  who  still  survive  him.  His  second  mar- 
riage was  to  Miss  Almira  S.  Bangs,  at  that  time  Principal 
of  the  public  schools  in  Springfield,  Illinois,  and  who 
lived  but  a  few  months  after  her  marriage.  He  was  sub- 
sequently married  to  Miss  Roxy  G.  Conklin  of  Michigan, 
now  his  surviving  widow. 

Thus  was  born,  and  reared  and  lived,  George  Stevens 
Roper,  whose  life  was  precious  to  every  one  of  us,  and 
whose  memory  will  reverently  abide  with  us  all. 

What  shall  we  say  of  such  a  life,  of  such  a  genial 
friend,  and  of  such  a  royal  Companion  ?  He  was  a  man 
whose  good  qualities  were  without  number,  and  whose 
ill  ones,  if  any,  were  unknown.  He  was  as  gentle  as  a 
woman,  trustful  as  a  child,  and  his  heart  took  in  all  men, 
all  sects,  and  all  creeds.  Too  noble  in  his  soul  to  doubt 
and  too  large-hearted  to  bear  malice,  the  world  was  to 
him  a  place  in  which  to  do  good,  and  where  the  right- 
hearted  could  find  in  every  human  being  some  quality 
worthy  of  kindly  recognition.  If  in  his  judgment  a  man 
strayed  from  the  high  purpose  of  his  being,  or  if  a  woman 
erred,  there  was  always  in  his  philosophy  a  place  for  re- 


314  MEMORIALS. 

pentance.  This  hopeful  spirit,  this  broad  philanthropy, 
this  tender  consideration  for  the  weaknesses  of  his  fel- 
lows, made  him  loved  of  men  even  as  he  loved  men. 
The  value  of  such  a  life  is  not  and  cannot  ever  be  fully 
appreciated  until  its  lamp  has  gone  out.  But  what  would 
the  world  be  without  the  example  of  such  lives,  and 
without  such  high  ideals?  Roper  will  not  be  remem- 
bered because  he  acquired  wealth  in  the  avenues  of  trade 
and  commerce;  no  monument  will  be  erected  to  his  mem- 
ory because  of  any  achievement  by  him  in  the  fields  of 
science,  or  art,  or  literature;  but  his  noble  deeds  and  his 
eloquent  life  will  speak  forever  in  his  just  praise.  He  was 
indeed  a  fit  representative  of  that  wide  republic  whose 
citizenship  is  made  up  from  that  innumerable  band  of 
heroic  yet  gentle  souls,  who  in  their  fraternal  compan- 
ionship are  all  "Princes  of  the  line  royal." 

Who  of  us  can  ever  forget  the  kindly  grasp  of  his 
hand,  the  pleasant  sound  of  his  tender  voice,  the  reassur- 
ing effect  of  his  ever  welcome  presence  ?  How  shall  we 
appreciate  the  good  which  has  flowed  from  contact  with 
such  a  loving  character  ?  How  pleasing  is  the  memory 
which  he  leaves  behind  him!  How  many  doubts  and 
sorrows  have  been  smoothed  away  by  the  touch  of  his 
sympathy,  by  his  kindly  word  of  cheer,  by  his  sincere 
counsel,  and  by  his  courageous  admonitions  as  he  walked 
among  us  from  day  to  day.  His  was  a  strong,  robust, 
cheerful,  beautiful,  loving  manhood.  His  was  a  courage 
which  in  the  vicissitudes  of  life  grew  stronger  in  time  of 
trial.  His  every  purpose  was  softened  by  the  monitions 
of  a  tender  conscience,  and  by  a  feeling  that  there  was 
ever  yet  to  be  reached  something  nobler  and  better  in  life. 

The  rhythm,  the  pathos  and  the  hope  which  animat- 
ed him  were  revealed  and  expressed  in  the  songs  he  so 
often  sang  to  us;  and  these  songs  were  the  evidence  of 


MEMORIALS.  31$ 

an  unshaken  faith  that  in  the  "land  beyond  the  river" 
he  would  find  a  "sweet  forever"  "where  they  ring  the 
golden  bells  for  you  and  me."  Unseen  hands  have  rung 
the  golden  bells  for  our  dear  Companion,  and  the  Om- 
niscient King  has  commanded  his  spirit  to  be  free.  The 
same  august  Commander  will  yet  ring  the  golden  bells 
for  us.  And  so  it  is,  that  of  our  cherished  Companion, 
with  all  that  made  life  dear  to  him,  and  with  all  that 
made  him  lovable  to  us,  we  have  only  the  memory  that 
clings  about  our  hearts.  As  we  approach  that  bourne 
whither  our  Companion  has  already  gone,  we  realize 
that  the  shadows  for  us  are  lengthening  to  the  East.  If 
no  gleam  of  hope  comes  to  us  in  the  setting  sun  of  life, 
then  thick  darkness  will  cover  us,  and  the  longing  after 
immortality  must  be  stifled  in  despair.  Already  we  step 
high  lest  we  stumble  and  fall  over  the  little  billows  of 
earth  which  cover  the  forms  of  our  loved  and  lost.  The 
earthly  form  which  held  for  a  time  the  intrepid  spirit  of 
Companion  Roper  was  placed  within  the  narrow  house 
which  in  due  time  we  must  all  inhabit.  Winter  will  come 
and  cover  with  its  mantle  of  white  the  unsightly  mound, 
perennial  spring  will  clothe  in  beauteous  verdure  the  turf 
above  him,  innocent  birds  will  sing  in  the  drooping 
branches  that  wave  over  his  grave,  the  tide  of  life  will 
rise  and  fall,  the  bustle  of  commerce  will  charm  us  with 
its  din  of  echoes,  and  the  struggling  multitudes  will  press 
forever  on,  but  our  Companion  will  heed  them  not;  The 
Divine  attribute  which  made  him  immortal  is  not  there. 
Within  the  cerements  which  enclose  his  mouldering  clay 
lies  all,  if  aught  there  was  to  mar  the  beautiful  symme- 
try of  his  life.  He  has  pushed  aside  the  veil,  he  has 
opened  the  portals,  and  crossed  the  threshold  which 
divides  the  illimitable  eternity  of  the  past  from  the  limit- 
less cycle  of  the  future,  and  clothed  with  every  good 


316  MEMORIALS. 

deed  he  has  gone  as  a  valiant  prince  to  meet  the  merited 
welcome  of  his  King. 

To  his  family  we  offer  our  affectionate  condolences, 
and  invoke  for  them  the  gracious  favor  of  the  Loving 

Father  of  us  all. 

JOHN  H.  SHERRATT, 
FRANCIS  A.  RIDDLE, 
C.  F.  MATTESON, 

Committee. 


SAMUEL  COLEMAN  BLAKE. 

Major  and  Surgeon   Thirty-ninth  Illinois    Infantry,    United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,   Illinois,   February  6, 


I  HE  death  of  our  Companion  Dr.  Samuel  C.  Blake 
^     has  cast  a  deep  gloom  over  a  loving  family  and  a 
wide  circle  of  devoted  friends. 

Dr.  Blake  was  born  in  Bath,  Maine,  on  the  25th  day 
of  July,  1826.  He  sprang  from  a  revolutionary  family, 
his  grandfather,  John  Blake,  having  served  as  a  youth  of 
eighteen  years  in  the  Continental  Army.  In  the  com- 
pany of  his  cousin,  Captain  Dearborn,  afterwards  Major 
General  Dearborn,  after  whom  Fort  Dearborn  and  also 
Dearborn  Street  in  Chicago  wrere  named,  John  Blake 
took  part  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  participated  in 
the  festivities  at  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  Bunker 

317 


3l8  MEMORIALS. 

Hill  Monument,  and  was  one  of  the  thirteen  survivors  of 
that  battle  who  were  present  at  the  completion  of  the 
monument.  On  the  maternal  side  Dr.  Blake  was  con- 
nected with  John  Hancock,  the  first  signer  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence.  His  father,  Rev.  S.  P.  Blake, 
was  a  member  of  the  Maine  Annual  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for  half  a  century. 

Samuel  C.  Blake  received  his  academical  education 
at  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary,  and  on  the  2oth  of 
July,  1853,  he  graduated  from  the  Medical  Department 
of  Harvard  University.  He  served  as  house-physician 
in  the  Massachusetts  general  hospital  one  year.  Having 
practiced  medicine  in  Boston  three  years  and  a  half,  he 
came  to  Chicago  in  1856.  At  that  time  there  was  but. 
one  medical  college — "  Rush  " — and  only  one  hospital — 
("Mercy") — here.  In  1858,  in  connection  with  the  late 
Professor  Brainard,  Dr.  DeLaskie  Miller  and  J.  P.  Ross, 
he  leased  the  old  City  Hospital  building  and  organized 
the  second  hospital  in  the  city. 

In  1 86 1,  he  assisted  in  the  organizing  of  the  Thirty- 
ninth  Illinois,  and  when  the  regiment  was  not  promptly 
accepted,  he  applied  for  and  received  the  position  of 
Surgeon  in  the  Nineteenth  Illinois  Volunteers,  which 
regiment  he  accompanied  to  Missouri.  Here  he  was  de- 
tailed on  the  Staff  of  General  Hurlbut,  and  ordered  to 
inspect  the  regimental  hospital  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  which 
duty  he  performed  with  great  credit  to  himself. 

At  Quincy  he  organized  a  general  military  hospital, 
which  was  continued  during  the  war. 

After  the  Thirty-ninth  Illinois  was  mustered  into  the 
service,  Dr.  Blake  was  appointed  its  Surgeon.  In  Janu- 
ary, 1862,  he  was  detached  from  his  regiment  and  or- 
dered to  organize  a  brigade  hospital  at  Hancock,  Mary- 
land. He  remained  in  charge  of  it  until  the  troops  were 


MEMORIALS. 

ordered  to  advance  to  Winchester,  Virginia.  During 
General  Banks's  campaign  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley  he 
was  detailed  to  take  charge  of  the  general  hospital  of 
the  army  at  Mount  Jackson,  Virginia.  He  there  organized 
three  large  hospitals,  and  upon  the  retreat  of  the  army 
to  Strassburg,  Virginia,  he  organized  a  large  field  hos- 
pital, in  which  he  administered  to  the  comfort  of  a  thou- 
sand sick  and  wounded  soldiers  of  both  armies.  His 
great  professional  skill  and  deep  devotion  to  duty  were 
highly  appreciated  by  his  superior  officers,  as  the  follow- 
ing brief  abstracts  from  letters  addressed  to  him  may 
serve  to  show: 

Dr.  Thomas  Antisell,  Brigade  Surgeon  of  Volunteers 
and  Medical  Director  of  the  First  Division,  Department 
of  the  Shenandoah,  writes  to  him  from  the  General 
Headquarters  near  Edenburg,  Virginia,  on  the  I2th  of 
April,  1862,  among  other  things  as  follows:  "Dear  Sir: — 
I  have  had  ample  opportunity  of  estimating  your  ability 
as  a  hospital  surgeon,  and  feel  much  pleasure  in  being 
able  to  testify  to  the  care  and  devotion  bestowed  by  you 
on  the  men,  and  of  the  professional  skill  displayed  on 
many  occasions  where  the  service  required  it.  In  field 
hospitals,  where  many  things  needful  for  the  comfort  of 
the  sick  soldiers  have  to  be  improvised,  a  faithful  devo- 
tion to  duty  and  self-sacrifice  are  qualities  eminently 
needed;  in  your  display  of  these  I  have  also  been  witness, 
and  I  can  record  my  complete  approval  and  satisfaction 
with  your  conduct  at  the  Brigade  Hospital,  Hancock." 

Thomas  O.  Osborne,  the  brave  old  Colonel  com- 
manding the  Thirty-ninth  Illinois  Volunteers,  writes  to 
Dr.  Blake  from  his  headquarters  at  Harrison's  Landing 
on  the  5th  of  August,  1862,  as  follows: 

"My  dear  old  Surgeon:  If  at  any  time  you  should 
need  my  good  offices,  they  shall  be  freely  given  you,  for  that 


32O  MEMORIALS. 

good  name  and  reputation  which  you  won  for  yourself  and 
my  regiment  in  the  medical  department  of  the  army  in  the 
field,  and  I  cannot  forget  that  high  and  never-to-be-for- 
gotten compliment  paid  me  as  your  commanding  officer 
by  Major  General  Williams  in  your  behalf  for  your  distin- 
guished services  when  in  charge  of  the  general  hospital." 

Owing  to  the  severe  exposures  incident  to  his  service 
and  the  great  responsibilities  resting  upon  him,  his  health 
became  seriously  impaired  and  he  found  himself  com- 
pelled to  retire  from  the  service.  In  1863  he  was  County 
Physician  of  Cook  County,  and  from  1865  to  1866,  City 
Physician.  This  was  during  the  last  cholera  epidemic 
which  visited  Chicago.  There  was  at  that  time  no 
Superintendent  of  Health,  no  medical  inspectors,  and 
no  sanitary  police  force.  The  duties  devolving  upon  the 
Doctor  were  arduous  and  exacting,  but  he  performed 
them  with  the  same  perseverance  and  devotion  which  had 
characterized  his  work  in  the  army.  In  1868  the  Doctor 
was  a  member  of  the  Board-  of  Supervisors  of  Cook 
County,  and  it  is  mainly  due  to  his  indefatigable  efforts 
that  during  that  year  the  foundation  for  the  County 
Hospital  was  laid,  which  since  that  time  has  become 
one  of  the  most  important  and  beneficent  public  institu- 
tions in  the  northern  part  of  this  State. 

The  Doctor  was  also  instrumental  in  establishing  the 
Women's  and  Children's  Hospital  of  Chicago,  and  he 
served  on  the  medical  staff  of  these  institutions  for  sev- 
eral years.  As  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Medical  Col- 
lege of  this  city  he  occupied  the  chair  of  Diseases  of 
"  Mind  and  Nervous  System  "  for  seven  years.  He  was 
also  a  Fellow  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Medical  Society, 
of  the  American  Medical  Association,  of  the  Illinois  State 
Medical  Society,  of  the  Chicago  Medical  Society  and 
Consulting  Neurologist  of  Wesley  Hospital. 


MEMORIALS.  321 

Throughout  his  whole  life  Dr.  Samuel  C.  Blake 
proved  himself  to  be  true  to  every  duty  which  he  was 
ever  called  upon  to  perform.  He  had  a  high  conception 
of  his  splendid  calling,  which  to  him  was  a  celestial  god- 
dess to  guide  him  in  relieving  the  sick  and  wounded  and 
restoring  them  to  health  and  strength.  Endowed  with 
a  kind  heart  and  profoundly  learned  in  his  science,  he 
consecrated  his  whole  life  to  noble  deeds  of  humanity 
and  the  best  efforts  of  an  exalted  existence.  The  death 
of  such  a  man  leaves  a  void  not  only  in  the  circle  of  his 
sorrow-stricken  companions  in  arms  but  throughout  the 
city.  To  his  bereaved  family  we  express  our  profound- 
est  sympathy. 

EDMUND  ANDREWS,   M.  D., 
WILLIAM  VOCKE, 
WILLIAM  B.   KEELER, 

Committee. 


JOHN  BINES  FIDLAR. 

First  Lieutenant  Trventy-fifth  loiva  Infantry,    United  States  Volun- 
teers.     Died  at  Davenport,  loiva,  March  22,  1897. 

O  ORN  in  Hebron,  Ohio,  March  16,  1839;  died  in 
*\  V  Davenport,  Iowa,  March  22,  1897.  Sacrifice  is 
the  measure  of  worth.  The  full  stature  of  a  man 
is  the  sum  of  deeds  done  for  others.  Patriotism  is  but 
another  name  for  comradery.  The  country  men  die  for, 
is  an  essence  that  is  a  part  of  all  the  people.  To  brave 
death  for  one's  country  means  to  brave  death  for  neigh- 
bors, for  neighbors'  neighbors  whom  we  have  never  seen, 
but  to  whom  we  are  bound  by  that  invisible  chord,  human 
love.  Companion  Fidlar  was  a  patriot  in  every  sense  of 
the  word.  In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
the  Twenty-fifth  Iowa  Infantry  Volunteers.  He  was 

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MEMORIALS.  323 

with  his  regiment  in  the  battles  of  Arkansas  Post,  Vicks- 
burg,  Jackson,  luka,  Cherokee  Station  and  many  others. 
At  Cherokee  Station  he  was  seriously  wounded.  By 
untiring  attention  to  duty  and  meritorious  conduct,  par- 
ticularly at  Vicksburg  when  his  prompt  decision  and 
bravery  saved  a  rout,  he  was  steadily  promoted.  His 
regimental  record  is  the  best  evidence  of  his  worth  as  a 
soldier  and  comrade. 

August  14,  1862,  enlisted  and  was  made  First  Ser- 
geant of  Company  D,  Twenty-fifth  Iowa  Volunteers. 
February  5,  1863,  promoted  to  Second  Lieutenant.  May 
9,  1863,  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant.  June  6,  1865, 
mustered  out. 

It  the  close  of  the  war,  he  returned  to  the  position 
of  Express  Agent  at  Burlington,  Iowa.  In  1870  he  was 
appointed  to  a  position  in  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Davenport,  and  was  afterwards  its  Cashier  for  seventeen 
years,  when  he  resigned  to  go  into  business  for  himself. 
He  was  enterprising  and  energetic.  He  was  quick  to 
see  and  quick  to  execute.  The  same  nerve  that  he  dis- 
played on  the  battle  field  was  exercised  as  a  cashier  and 
in  business  generally.  To  promote  new  enterprises  that 
would  benefit  his  city  he  was  liberal  in  his  investments 
and  free  with  his  time  and  energy. 

He  leaves  a  widow  and  one  son,  and  this  Com- 
mandery  unites  with  them  and  his  hosts  of  friends  to 
mourn  his  departure. 

M.    L.    MARKS, 
MONROE  EBI, 
P.  W.   MCMANUS, 

Committee. 


AXEL  SMEDBERG  ADAMS. 

Captain  Second  Cavalry,  United  States  Army.     Died  at  Chicago, 
Illinois,  March  18,  i8qj. 

SMEDBERG  ADAMS  was  born  at  his  father's 
country  seat,  "  Devasego  Falls,  "  near  Prattsburg, 
Greene  County,  New  York,  August  24,  1843.     He 
died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  March  18,   1897. 

His  father,  William  Adams,  was  a  cotton  factor,  and 
resided  in  New  York  City.  He  was  a  boy  of  gentle, 
studious  habits  and  strong  artistic  tastes;  was  educated 
in  private  schools,  later  devoted  some  time  to  the  study 
of  art,  produced  sketches  and  paintings  showing  much 
talent  and,  but  for  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  would  prob- 
ably have  made  that  his  chosen  profession. 

He  became  a  member  of  the  Twenty-second   Regi- 

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MEMORIALS.  325 

ment  Infantry,  National  Guard  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
and  was  made  a  Corporal  in  May,  1862.  At  that  time, 
and  again  in  1863,  his  regiment  was  mustered  into  the 
United  States  service,  and  sent  to  the  front  for  brief 
periods. 

In  February,  1865,  he  enlisted  in  the  Fourteenth 
United  States  Infantry,  was  appointed  Sergeant,  March 
i,  1865,  passed  his  examination  for  Second  Lieutenant, 
was  commissioned  as  such  to  date  from  May  3,  1865; 
promoted  to  First  Lieutenant,  July  6,  1865;  promoted 
to  Captain,  November  27,  1868,  and  resigned  October 
26,  1869. 

After  having  received  his  commission  as  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, he  joined  his  regiment,  Second  United  States 
Cavalry,  at  Winchester,  Virginia,  and  in  October,  1865, 
moved  with  it  to  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas.  His  ser- 
vice from  that  time  was  entirely  in  the  Western  States 
and  Territories,  engaged  in  scouts  and  marches  and  In- 
dian fighting. 

In  November,  1869,  he  came  to  Chicago  and,  after  a 
brief  stay,  went  to  Fitchburg,  Kentucky,  where  he  was 
employed  in  iron  works  about  three  years,  then  to  New 
York  City,  and  remained  in  his  father's  employ  until 
1876.  From  1876  to  1889  he  was  employed  at  Oil  City, 
Pennsylvania,  most  of  the  time  as  book-keeper  in  a  mer- 
cantile establishment.  He  then  returned  to  Chicago, 
and  engaged  in  the  business  of  an  expert  accountant,  in 
which  capacity  he  gave  entire  satisfaction  to  his  em- 
ployers. 

A  man  exquisitely  neat  in  his  person  and  surroundings, 
careful,  methodical  and  painstaking  in  his  work,  he  made 
comparatively  few  general  acquaintances,  but  those  who 
knew  him  loved  him  well. 

This  Commandery  will  remember  him  as  one  who 


326  MEMORIALS. 

served  his  country  in  the  time  of  need,  and  tenders  its 

sympathies  to  his  sorrowing  relatives. 

GEORGE  K.   BRADY, 
DANIEL  ROBINSON, 
RICHARD  ROBINS, 

Committee. 


JOHN  YOUNG  OLIVER. 

Died  at  Denver,    Colorado,    April  g,    i8gj. 

^TOHN  Y.  OLIVER,  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Com- 
mandery  by  inheritance,  Insignia  No.  5144,  was 
born  in  Monroe,  Michigan,  December  14,  1853, 
and  died  at  Denver,  Colorado,  April  9,  1897.  He  was 
the  son  of  Brigadier  General  John  M.  Oliver,  who  served 
with  distinction  through  the  Civil  War,  in  the  Army  of 
the  Tennessee.  Although  but  a  child  of  tender  years  at 
the  beginning  of  the  war,  he  accompanied  his  father 
through  all  the  campaigns  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee, 
never  leaving  him,  either  in  battle,  bivouac  or  camp. 
Shortly  after  the  war  closed,  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years, 
he  entered  the  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  and  during 
the  course  of  his  studies,  circumnavigated  the  globe  on 

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328  MEMORIALS. 

the  veteran  man-of-war,  "Constitution."  Upon  his 
graduation  he  severed  his  connection  with  the  Navy, 
entering  upon  a  business  life.  In  the  early  seventies, 
Mr.  Oliver  took  a  position  with  the  Pullman  Palace  Car 
Company,  at  Pullman,  Illinois,  but  early  associations 
and  training  had  left  with  him  a  martial  spirit  which 
never  forsook  him.  The  organization  of  the  First  Regi- 
ment Infantry,  Illinois  National  Guards,  offered  him  the 
opportunity  of  once  more  gratifying  this  taste.  He  en- 
listed in  Company  C  of  this  regiment,  and  soon  became 
its  First  Sergeant,  serving  with  distinction  as  enlisted 
man  and  commissioned  officer.  His  thorough  knowledge 
of  minor  tactics,  the  school  of  the  soldier  and  of  the 
company,  and  of  the  customs  of  the  service,  together 
with  his  tact  and  strict  discipline,  contributed  in  a  large 
measure  to  the  victories  of  his  Company  at  many  prize 
drills  and  contests,  notably  that  with  the  Chickasaw 
Guards  of  Memphis,  at  St.  Louis,  in  1880.  He  earned 
for  himself  the  name  of  being  the  best  qualified  First 
Sergeant  in  the  National  Guard  of  the  entire  country. 
He  also  won  laurels  during  the  railroad  riots  of  1877, 
and  the  labor  and  anarchistic  troubles  of  1879.  After 
having  been  commissioned  as  First  Lieutenant  of  Com- 
pany C,  First  Infantry,  Illinois  National  Guard,  he  left 
the  service  in  1881,  and  in  1882  was  married  to  Miss 
Minnie  F.  Towne,  now  his  widow.  Soon  after  this,  he 
was  tendered  the  position  of  General  Manager  for  the 
American  Smelting  Company  at  Leadville,  Colorado, 
which  position  he  retained  for  ten  years.  During  his 
residence  in  Colorado,  Mr.  Oliver  was  elected  twice  to 
the  State  Senate.  He  performed  his  political  duties 
equally  as  well  and  conscientiously  as  those  of  his  former 
military  life.  While  residing  in  Canon  City,  Colorado, 
he  drilled  the  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar,  and 


MEMORIALS.  329 

while  a  resident  of  Leadville,  he  drilled  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  enabled  them  to  win  three  prizes  in  com- 
petitive contests.  From  Leadville  Mr.  Oliver  went  to 
Denver,  and  became  connected,  as  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer, with  the  "Mine  and  Smelter  Supply  Company," 
which  position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

To  the  members  of  this  Commandery,  Companion 
Oliver  was  not  well  known.  Those  of  us  who  did  know 
him,  however,  sorrow  in  the  loss  of  a  manly  Companion 
and  an  affectionate  friend. 

To  his  bereaved  family,  this  Commandery  offers  its 
sympathy.  With  them  it  shares  the  consolation  that  for 
him  life  was  a  success,  well  filled  and  rounded  out  with 
completeness,  in  all  parts  where  he  participated  or 

directed. 

EDGAR  D.   SWAIN, 
CHARLES  R.   E.  KOCH, 
GEO.  V.   LAUMAN, 

Committee. 


STUART   McENTEE. 

Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  April  29,   1897. 

3TUART  McENTEE  was  born  at  Albany,  New 
York,  November  6,  1869.  In  1876  he  came 
with  his  parents  to  Chicago,  which  has  since  been 
his  home.  After  preparation  at  Shattuck,  in  Faribault, 
Minnesota,  he  entered  Racine  College.  The  year  fol- 
lowing he  matriculated  at  Harvard  University,  but  failing 
health  compelled  him  to  abandon  the  course  he  had 
planned  and  he  returned  home  to  undertake  the  pursuit 
of  business.  His  membership  in  this  Order  dates  from 
January,  1893,  and  was  derived  through  his  father, 
Colonel  Charles  Stuart  McEntee,  who  survives  him. 

To  most  of  the   younger  men  in  the  Commandery, 
and  to   many   of  the  elder  ones,   Stuart   McEntee  was 

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MEMORIALS.  331 

familiarly  known.  Of  genial  and  gentlemanly  bearing, 
he  met  men  readily  and  won  them  easily.  Those  who 
knew  him  were  impressed  with  his  fervent  patriotism 
and  his  devotion  to  the  principles  for  which  the  Loyal 
Legion  stands.  The  last  two  years  of  his  life  were  years 
of  constant  suffering.  A  lingering  malady  tested  his 
heroism,  which  was  not  found  wanting.  Those  of  us 
who  saw  him  at  the  meetings  of  the  Commandery,  felt 
the  unfailing  cheer  of  his  greeting.  Never  were  we  per- 
mitted by  his  manner  to  suspect  that  he  was  looking  into 
the  face  of  death. 

The  winter  just  past  he  spent  under  his  father's  care 
in  the  mild  Southwest,  and  when  it  became  apparent 
his  life  was  nearing  its  close,  the  long  journey  homeward 
was  begun.  He  rallied  to  meet  the  fatigue  of  travel  and 
rejoiced  in  reaching  home,  but  he  lingered  only  a  few 
days,  and  on  the  29th  of  April,  came  his  final  relief  from 
pain. 

When  the  veteran  of  many  battles  is  laid  to  rest,  full 
of  years  and  honors,  the  sense  of  his  life's  completeness 
softens  our  grief.  But  when  the  young  man,  in  whom 
are  soldierly  qualities  and  promises  of  an  honorable 
career,  is  stricken  down  at  the  very  outset,  we  reflect 
with  sadness  on  what  he  might  and  would  have  been. 
It  is  thus  with  Stuart  McEntee.  We  who  remain  sorrow 
in  the  loss  of  a  manly  Companion  and  an  affectionate 
friend.  To  his  bereaved  family  this  Commandery  offers 
its  sympathy,  and  with  them  it  shares  the  consolation 

that  for  him 

"  Danger's  troubled  night  is  o'er, 
And  the  morn  of  peace  returned." 

JOHN  R.  MONTGOMERY, 
WILLIAM  S.   LOVE, 
H.   M.   SLAYMAKER, 

Committee. 


DANIEL   CURTIS    ROUNDY. 

Major  and  Surgeon  Thirty-seventh  Wisconsin  Infantry,  United 
States  Volunteers.    Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  June  23, 


e^IPANION  Daniel  Curtis  Roundy,  a  member  of  the 
Commandery,    was  born  at  Spafford,   Onondaga 
County,  New  York,  on  the  22d  day  of  November,  1824, 
and  died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  June  23,   1897,  in  his  sev- 
enty-third year. 

Companion  Roundy  first  came  to  Chicago  in  1838, 
and  six  years  later  he  graduated  from  the  high  school  in 
St.  Charles,  Illinois.  After  taking  a  course  in  the  study 
of  medicine,  he  located  in  Walworth  County,  Wisconsin, 
where  he  was  married  in  1849  to  Miss  Jane  E.  Young, 
who  died  at  Asheville,  North  Carolina,  a  few  years  ago. 
In  1859,  while  a  resident  of  Geneva,  Wisconsin,  he 

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MEMORIALS.  333 

was  commissioned  Captain  of  a  Company  of  State  Militia 
known  as  the  "Geneva  Independents."  Immediately 
after  President  Lincoln's  call  for  troops,  he  tendered  his 
services  to  the  Governor  of  his  State,  recruited  a  com- 
pany, and  on  April  25,  1861,  was  commissioned  Captain 
of  Company  F,  Fourth  Wisconsin  Infantry  Volunteers, 
being  one  of  the  first  to  enlist  from  his  State.  During 
the  Campaign  of  the  Army  under  General  Butler  at 
New  Orleans,  and  at  the  capture  of  Fort  Jackson,  Com- 
panion Roundy  received  an  injury  that  caused  his  retire- 
ment from  the  service  under  surgeons'  certificate  of  dis- 
ability, September  10,  1862.  Returning  to  his  home,  he 
was  elected  to  the  legislature.  While  serving  his  State 
in  civil  life,  he  was  in  February,  1864,  commissioned 
Major  and  Surgeon  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Wisconsin  In- 
fantry Volunteers,  with  which  regiment  he  rendered 
valiant  services  until  mustered  out  with  it  in  August,  1865. 

Companion  Roundy  located  in  Davenport,  Iowa,  in 
1866.  Returning  to  Chicago  in  1872,  he  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile life,  successfully  building  up  the  Roundy  Regalia 
Company,  of  which  he  was  President  at  the  time  of  his 
death. 

Those  of  us  who  knew  Companion  Roundy  will  realize 
that  in  his  death  we  have  lost  a  true  and  loyal  friend, 
one  who  was  ever  faithful  and  unassuming  in  the  dis- 
charge of  every  duty  imposed  upon  him  and  one  in  whose 
wisdom  and  integrity  we  had  the  utmost  confidence. 

His  remains  were  laid  away  beside  those  of  his  wife 
at  Asheville,  North  Carolina. 

To  his  bereaved  family  we  can  only  express  our  deep 
sympathy  in  the  loss  we  have  all  sustained. 

WILLIAM  B.   KEELER, 
JOHN  H.   STIBBS, 
PETER  G.    GARDNER, 

Committee. 


PHILIP  REGIS    DENIS  DE  TROBRIAND, 

Colonel  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General  United  States  Army,  Brigadier 

General  and  Brevet  Major  General.  United  States  Volunteers. 

Died  at  Bayport,  Long  Island,  July  /j,  1897. 

OUR  summer  vacation  is  past  and  we  are  again  per- 
mitted  to   have   our   reunions   and   indulge  in  the 
reminiscences  which  form   so. large  a  part  of  our 
being,  saddened  as  we  always  are  by  the  death  of  some 
Companion  whose  memory,  fame  or  society  is  a  treasure 
to  us. 

Amongst  those  whose  loss  we  are  called  upon  to 
mourn,  is  one  of  the  most  picturesque  characters  of  the 
war,  General  Philip  Regis  Denis  de  Trobriand;  one  who, 
ripe  in  years  as  in  glory,  was  a  fine  example  of  the  all- 
embracing  and  assimilating  character  of  our  American 

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MEMORIALS.  335 

institutions.  General  de  Trobriand  was  of  an  old  Breton 
family  dating  back  to  the  time  of  the  Black  Prince  in  the 
fourteenth  century  (1384),  occupying  a  place  in  the  old 
nobility  of  the  Province,  being  hereditary  members  of 
the  parliament  of  Brittany.  Philip  de  Trobriand  was 
born  at  Tours,  France,  June  4,  1816,  where  his  father, 
General  Joseph  de  Trobriand,  was  in  command  under 
the  rule  of  the  legitimate  or  elder  branch  of  the  Bourbon 
family.  He  was  brought  up  as  a  page  in  the  royal  house- 
hold, with  an  education  preparatory  to  a  military  career, 
until  1830,  when  the  legitimate  king,  Charles  X,  being 
driven  from  France,  his  father  declined  to  serve  under 
the  Orleans  king.  His  education  was  completed  at  Poi- 
tiers, and  his  military  course  at  a  private  institution. 

In  1841,  after  his  father's  death,  he  came  on  a  visit 
to  the  United  States  with  a  friend,  a  journey  much  more 
rare  at  that  day  than  now.  On  that  visit  he  met,  and 
shortly  thereafter  married,  Miss  May  Mason  Jones,  a 
daughter  of  the  President  of  the  Chemical  Bank  of  New 
York.  After  the  marriage  they  spent  several  years  at 
the  exiled  court  of  the  Comte  de  Chambord,  near  Venice. 
In  1848  the  Baron  de  Trobriand  came  to  New  York  to 
live,  at  the  request  of  his  father-in-law,  engaging  in  lit- 
erary work  and  starting  a  French  review.  Family  mat- 
ters took  him. back  to  France  in  1851,  where  he  remained 
until  1854,  when  he  returned  to  New  York  to  reside  per- 
manently, engaging  in  literary  work  on  the  French  jour- 
nal in  New  York,  the  Courier  des  Etats  Unis,  becoming 
thoroughly  an  American  in  feeling  and  principle. 

When  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  broke  out  he  was  ap- 
pointed Colonel  of  the  Fifty-fifth  New  York  Volunteers, 
August  2,  1861,  the  nucleus  of  which  was  the  militia 
regiment  known  as  the  "Lafayette  Guards."  The  regi- 
ment was  sent  to  Washington  in  the  early  autumn,  and 


336  MEMORIALS. 

in  1862  participated  in  the  Peninsular  Campaign  with  the 
Fourth  Corps,  making  a  good  record.  After  this  cam- 
paign the  regiment  returned  to  Washington  and  was 
assigned  to  the  Third  Corps.  In  November,  1862,  the 
Fifty-fifth  New  York  was  consolidated  with  the  Thirty- 
eighth  New  York,  with  de  Trobriand  as  Colonel  of  the 
consolidated  regiment.  It  participated  in  the  Fredericks- 
burg  and  Chancellorsville  Campaigns,  and  at  Gettysburg, 
where  Colonel  de  Trobriand  commanded  his  brigade 
with  distinguished  gallantry  in  front  of  the  wheat  field, 
losing  nearly  one-half  of  his  force.  In  the  fall  of  1863, 
on  account  of  not  being  confirmed  as  Brigadier  General 
by  the  United  States  Senate,  although  recommended  by 
all  the  officers  above  him,  his  regiment  being  consoli- 
dated with  another,  he  was  mustered  out  and  remained 
out  of  service  until  the  spring  of  1864.  He  was  renomi- 
nated  as  Brigadier  General  in  January,  1864,  and  con- 
firmed April  ist,  to  date  from  January  5th,  and  on  re- 
porting for  duty  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  all  the 
forces  in  and  around  New  York  harbor,  a  large  and 
laborious  command,  which,  however,  was  not  so  welcome 
to  him  as  duty  in  the  field;  so  that  when  General  Meade 
applied  to  have  him  assigned  to  duty  with  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac,  he  eagerly  embraced  the  opportunity,  and 
was  assigned  to  command  of  the  First  Brigade,  Third 
Division  of  the  Second  Corps,  troops  formerly  belonging 
to  the  Third  Corps.  With  them  he  served  with  distin- 
guished honor  until  the  final  day  at  Appomattox,  where 
he  was  in  command  of  a  Division,  amongst  the  troops 
and  officers  with  whom  he  had  been  associated  almost 
from  the  beginning.  He  was  brevetted  Major  General, 
to  date  from  April  9,  1865,  for  highly  meritorious  services 
during  the  campaign  ending  at  Appomattox.  He  was 
mustered  out  January  15,  1866;  was  appointed  Colonel 


MEMORIALS.  337 

Thirty-first  Infantry,  to  date  July  28th;  transferred  to 
Thirteenth  Infantry  March  20,  1869;  commanded  Dis- 
trict and  Military  Department  of  Dakota  to  May,  1869; 
District  of  Montana  to  October,  1871,  where  he  con- 
ducted the  Piegan  campaign;  Fort  Steele,  Wyoming,  to 
October,  1873;  then  serving  at  New  Orleans  to  March 
20,  1879,  having  to  arrest  the  legislature  during  the  re- 
construction days  in  Louisiana,  when  he  was  retired.  He 
made  New  Orleans  his  residence  after  retirement  till  his 
death,  spending  the  summers  alternately  in  France  and 
with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Post,  at  Bayport, 
Long  Island,  thus  passing  the  evening  of  his  days  in  the 
happy  enjoyment  of  social  intercourse  with  his  children 
and  friends,  surrounded  by  whom  he  passed  away  July 
T5»  !897,  aged  eighty-one  years. 

While  in  France,  directly  after  the  war,  he  wrote  for 
the  information  of  the  French  people,  his  work,  "Four 
Years  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,"  which  has  been 
regarded  by  some  of  the  ablest  military  critics  as  being 
unsurpassed  as  a  clear  and  concise  account  of  the  causes 
leading  up  to  the  war;  and  his  military  education,  his 
acute  and  discerning  mind,  his  fine  judgment,  with  his 
fearless  criticism  of  men  and  movements  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac,  make  his  work  one  of  the  most  valuable 
and  interesting  of  the  contributions  relating  to  the  his- 
tory of  that  famous  army;  and  as  time  passes,  his  con- 
clusions are  more  and  more  accepted  by  military  men  as 
well-balanced,  just  and  able.  His  well-informed  mind, 
which  his  intercourse  with  distinguished  men  of  the  New 
and  Old  Worlds  had  stored  with  information  of  the  per- 
sons who  had  filled  a  large  space  in  the  history  of  his 
time,  his  ability  as  a  musician  and  artist,  and  his  cour- 
teous manners  and  happy  disposition  made  his  compan- 
ionship very  delightful  amongst  the  officers  with  whom 


338  MEMORIALS. 

he  served;  and  his  gallantry  in  the  field  and  devotion  to 
duty  at  all  times,  in  command  of  the  troops  trained  by 
Kearney,  made  him  a  worthy  successor  to  Lafayette  as 
the  only  other  Frenchman  who  attained  the  rank  of  Ma- 
jor General  in  the  Armies  of  the  United  States. 

We  tender  our  condolences  to  his  children  who  mourn 
his  departure  and  we  join  with  them  in  a  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  so  able  and  gallant  a  soldier  who  has  left  to 
them  and  his  fellow  soldiers  a  legacy  of  duty  performed, 
and  honor  won,  which  is  the  most  valuable  of  all  bequests. 

GEORGE  K.  DAUCHY, 

HUNTINGTON    W.   JACKSON, 

JOSEPH  H.   WOOD, 

Committee. 


THADDEUS  JOSEPH   BUTLER. 

Chaplain  Tzventy-third  Illinois  Infantry.  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Rome,  Italy,  July  16,  1897. 

THADDEUS  JOSEPH  BUTLER,  a  servant  of  God 

^  and  a  Companion  of  this  Order,  closed  his  human 
career  in  the  Eternal  Capital  July  16,  1897.  He  died  on 
the  very  eve  of  his  Episcopal  ordination,  and  fell  where 
he  had  received  his  theological  education,  in  the  shadow 
of  the  dome  of  St.  Peter's.  Born  at  Limerick,  Ireland, 
November  i,  1833,  he  came  to  America  from  Rome  in 
1856,  bearing  the  commission  of  his  church,  a  recom- 
mendation in  itself,  but  that  which  endears  his  memory 
particularly  to  us  is  that  when  the  strife  came  for  the 
disruption  of  the  Union  and  the  continuation  of  slavery 
within  the  territory  of  a  dismembered  republic,  he  bore 

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a  military  commission,  having  been  Chaplain  of  the 
Twenty-third  Illinois  Infantry,  U.  S.  V.,  dating  from 
June  15,  1861. 

In  1 86 1  abolition  was  not  an  avowed,  it  was  scarcely 
an  included,  purpose  of  the  war  which  at  the  outset  was 
waged  entirely  for  the  purpose  of  preserving  the  integrity 
of  the  States  in  federal  union.  No  popular  political  body 
had  declared  for  abolition.  The  convention  which  nom- 
inated Abraham  Lincoln  confined  itself  to  a  declaration 
of  hostility  to  the  extension  of  slavery  to  the  territories. 
Had  national  authority  been  reasserted  indisputably  im- 
mediately upon  the  incident  of  Sumter,  who  can  say  how 
long  slavery  might  have  abided  ?  In  every  fibre  of  his 
being,  Dr.  Butler,  among  whose  classmates  at  Rome 
was  an  African  of  full  blood,  was  opposed  to  human 
slavery.  He  came  to  America  with  none  of  the  conserv- 
ative feeling  induced  in  Americans  by  generations  of  tol- 
erance of  slavery  as  an  institution  protected  by  the  laws. 
Generous,  impulsive,  vehement  in  his  denunciations  of 
great  wrongs,  he  was  necessarily  outspoken  in  protest  of 
man's  ownership  of  man.  He  was  a  champion  from  the 
first,  of  the  freedom  of  a  fellow-being  from  absolute 
ownership,  as  persistently  and  intelligently  he  labored 
for  the  emancipation  of  the  human  soul  from  the  sway  of 
evil.  He  saw  and  welcomed  the  inevitable  outcome  of 
the  civil  strife,  and  with  the  joy  of  an  ardent  nature, 
gladly  accepted  the  invitation  of  James  A.  Mulligan  to 
become  the  Chaplain  of  a  regiment  raised  by  him  in 
Chicago,  and  destined  from  its  own  deeds  and  from  the 
gallantry  and  devotion  of  its  commander,  who  was  to 
perish  in  the  Shenandoah  in  1864  as  the  commander  of 
a  division,  to  become  famous. 

The  Chaplain  shared  the  peril  and  privation  of  the 
long  and  memorable  siege  at  Lexington,  Missouri,  and 


MEMORIALS.  341 

accompanied  the  regiment,  upon  its  reorganization,  to 
Virginia,  certain  of  whose  misty  mountain  tops  were 
vocal  with  the  solemn  intonation  of  the  service  prescribed 
by  his  church,  and  rang  with  his  exhortation  to  the  sol- 
diers for  whose  spiritual  welfare  he  was  answerable,  that 
they  persevere  unfalteringly  in  their  performance  of  duty 
to  God  and  their  country.  An  affection  of  the  eyes, 
which  was  to  give  him  no  little  trouble  in  his  subsequent 
career,  impelled  the  tender  of  his  resignation,  and  he 
was  honorably  discharged  from  the  volunteer  service  of 
the  United  States  on  March  n,  1863. 

Though  he  had  retired  from  the  army,  Dr.  Butler's 
interest  in  the  war  continued,  and  he  lost  no  opportunity 
to  encourage  enlistment  and  to  relieve  distress  in  the 
field.  He  had  been  pastor  of  old  St.  Mary's  Church, 
which  was  situated  at  the  corner  of  Wabash  avenue  and 
Madison  street,  and  on  his  return  was  assigned  to  another 
pastorate,  to  be  transferred  after  an  interval  of  some 
years  to  a  church  at  Rockford,  in  this  State,  where  his 
public  spirit  induced  him  to  accept  the  presidency  of  the 
public  library.  In  1887  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St. 
John's  Church,  in  this  city,  where  many  Companions  of 
this  Order  heard  last  July  the  solemn,  impressive  and 
eloquent  tribute  paid  by  another  Companion  of  the  Loyal 
Legion,  Archbishop  Ireland  of  St.  Paul,  his  old-time 
friend,  and  like  him  an  officer  of  volunteers. 

Dr.  Butler's  graces  and  accomplishments  were  extra- 
ordinary. He  was  a  linguist,  a  musician,  an  orator,  a 
connoisseur  of  the  fine  arts.  This  Commandery  has 
heard  from  his  own  lips  humorous  and  pathetic  recital  of 
some  part  of  his  military  service,  and  learned  in  his 
hearty  companionship,  full  of  the  milk  of  human  kind- 
ness, how  it  was  possible  for  him  successfully  to  "allure 
to  brighter  fields  and  lead  the  way. "  In  fulfillment  of 


342  MEMORIALS. 

his  priestly  function  it  was  times  without  number  the 
solemn  duty  of  this  consoler  of  his  kind  to  stand  by  the 
bier  of  his  fellow  mortals,  and,  while  aiding  the  survivors 
to  bear  their  loss,  reverently  and  hopefully  to  commit 
the  dead  to  the  Infinite  Mercy  that  having  created  man 
frail,  may  not  be  as  harsh  in  judgment  of  his  failures  as 
often  are  human  kind.  This  office  he  performed  over 
the  blouse-shouldered  remains  of  volunteers  who,  upon 
the  great  plains  of  the  Missouri,  or  in  the  valleys  of  Vir- 
ginia, fell  for  their  country.  The  muffled  drum  was 
silent;  the  reversed  arms  borne  by  sorrowing  Compan- 
ions on  the  grave-ward  march  were  charged  for  the  fare- 
well volley;  the  clods  fell  upon  the  coffin,  and  the  robed 
priest  in  the  sweet  voice  that  was  among  his  many  gifts 
from  a  nature  profusely  bountiful  to  him,  spoke  in  the 
sonorous  language  common  to  the  multitude  of  the  Chris- 
tian confessors  and  martyrs  the  last  words  of  the  Roman 
liturgy.  And  we  who  survive,  for  a  little  time  only,  may 
sincerely  and  reverently  say  for  him,  as  he  prayerfully 
said  for  many  another  soldier,  Requiescat  in  Pace. 

MARTIN  J.  RUSSELL, 
CHARLES  W.  DAVIS, 
ARTHUR  EDWARDS, 

Committee. 


JAMES  WITHINGTON  HUTCHINSON. 

Second  Assistant  Engineer,   Unites  States   Navy.     Died  at    Green- 
field, Illinois,   September  2,   1897. 

O  ORN  Griggsville,  Illinois,  September  14,  1841.  Died 
*\\  at  his  home,  Greenfield,  Illinois,  September  2, 
-"^  1897.  Such,  in  brief,  is  the  record  of  the  birth 
and  death  of  one  well  known  to  many  of  the  members 
of  this  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion. 

This  is  not  all,  however,  which  is  entered  upon  the 
pages  of  this  Companion's  history,  nor  all  to  be  found  in 
the  golden  book  kept  by  the  recording  angel,  of  the 
services  of  those  who  loved  and  served  their  country  in 
its  darkest  hour  of  peril. 

The  foundation  of  Companion  Hutchinson's  educa- 

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344  MEMORIALS. 

tion  was  laid  in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois  and  com- 
pleted in  the  Polytechnic  College  at  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  graduated  before  he  was 
twenty  years  of  age.  Receiving  his  diploma  in  the  one 
hand  he  signed  the  muster  roll  with  the  other  and  in 
December,  1861,  was  commissioned  Second  Assistant 
Engineer  of  the  United  States  warship  Tuscarora  and  sent 
upon  foreign  service. 

Cruising  off  the  English  and  Spanish  coasts  to  protect 
our  merchant  vessels  from  the  "Alabama"  and  other 
Confederate  cruisers,  our  Companion  visited  Gibraltar, 
Malta  and  other  places  in  the  Mediterranean  and  on  the 
coast  until  ordered  home  to  join  the  North  Atlantic 
squadron. 

After  engaging  the  iron-clad  "North  Carolina"  off 
the  mouth  of  Cape  Fear  River  and  driving  her  back  to 
Wilmington,  Companion  Hutchinson  was  transferred  to 
the  first-class  warship  Susquehanna  and  participated  in 
the  bombardment  and  capture  of  Fort  Fisher. 

In  this  famous  ship  and  in  the  North  Atlantic 
squadron  our  Companion  continued  to  serve  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  participating  in  all  the  service  rendered 
by  that  great  fleet. 

Resigning  his  commission  when  there  was  no  more 
active  service,  our  Companion  went  to  Colorado  and  en- 
gaged in  his  profession  as  a  mining  engineer.  Marrying 
in  1868,  he  soon  after  returned  to  Illinois,  became  a 
citizen  of  Greenfield  and  engaged  in  banking.  Here  he 
continued  to  reside  until  called  up  aloft  by  that  sweet 
little  cherub  that  watches  "  o'er  the  life  of  Poor  Jack." 

Taking  an  active  part  in  public  affairs,  our  Com- 
panion was  entrusted  with  many  positions  of  honor  and 
responsibility  and  served  several  terms  as  Mayor  of 
Greenfield.  A  devoted  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 


MEMORIALS.  345 

copal  Church  he  was  for  many  years  the  faithful  Super- 
intendent of  its  Sabbath  School. 

Loved  and  honored  in  all  the  Associations  of  which 
he  was  a  member,  he  was  at  the  time  of  his  death  Com- 
mander of  Weisner  Post,  No.  350,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  as  he  was  an  honored  and  respected  member 
of  this  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  of  the  United  States. 

In  the  ancient  and  honorable  fraternity  of  Free  Masons 
our  Companion  had  attained  to  Christian  Knighthood  and 
the  highest  offices  in  the  Holy  Royal  Arch,  being  a  Past 
Grand  High  Priest  of  the  Grand  Royal  Arch  Chapter  of 
this  State.  He  was  also  an  earnest  and  faithful  member 
of  the  Masonic  Veteran  Association  of  Illinois,  and  was 
laid  to  rest  in  Greenfield  by  his  Masonic  brethren. 

Our  Companion  has  "crossed  the  bar,"  and  having 
seen  his  "Pilot  face  to  face,"  is  in  the  clear  waters  of 
eternal  life,  where  we  may  hope  to  meet  him  in  the 
hereafter. 

"  Sunset  and  evening  star, 
And  one  clear  call  for  me, 
And  may  there  be  no  moaning  at  the  bar 
When  I  put  out  to  sea. 

But  such  a  flood  as,  moving,  seems  to  sleep 
Too  deep  for  sound  or  foam, 

When  that  which  drew  from  out  the  wondrous  deep 
Turns  again  home. 

Twilight  and  evening  bell,  and  after  that  the  dark, 

And  may  there  be  no  moaning  or  farewell  when  I  embark; 

And  though  from  out  the  realm  of  time  and  space 

The  flood  may  bear  me  far, 

I  hope  to  meet  my  Pilot  face  to  face 

When  I  have  crossed  the  bar." 

JOHN  C.   SMITH, 
HASWELL  C.   CLARKE, 

JOHN  C.   NEELY, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  JOHN  LYSTER. 

Colonel  (Retired)    United  States  Army,     Died  at  Sachet  Harbor, 
Nezv  York,  September  23, 


e^ONEL  William  J.  Lyster,  who  died  on  the  23d  of 
September  last  at  Sacket  Harbor,  New  York,  was 
born  at  Tecumseh,  Michigan,  June  27,   1833. 

His  service  was  as  follows:  Second  Lieutenant  and 
Adjutant  Second  Michigan  Infantry  May  25,  1861,  to 
June  21,  1  86  1.  Appointed  First  Lieutenant  Nineteenth 
United  States  Infantry,  May  14,  1861,  accepted  June 
21,  1861.  Commanded  Company  A,  Nineteenth  In- 
fantry, from  August,  1861,  to  February,  1863.  Pro- 
moted Captain  Nineteenth  Infantry  August  9,  1864, 
Major  Sixth  Infantry  October  13,  1886,  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Twenty-first  Infantry  August  I,  1891,  and 

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MEMORIALS.  347 

Colonel  Ninth  Infantry   May    i,    1896,    serving   in   that 
position  until  the  date  of  his  retirement,  June  27,   1897. 

He  served  in  Rousseau's  Brigade,  McCook's  Division, 
and  the  Regular  Brigade  of  the  Western  Army  through- 
out the  war,  and  participated  in  the  following  battles  and 
skirmishes:  Shiloh,  Chickamauga,  Missionary  Ridge, 
Resaca,  New  Hope  Church,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Smyrna 
Church,  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Utoy  Creek,  Siege  of  Atlanta, 
Dry  Walk,  Kentucky,  Buzzard's  Roost,  Georgia,  Hoover's 
Gap,  Tennessee,  Tunnel  Hill,  Georgia. 

He  was  brevetted  Captain  April  7,  1862,  for  gallant 
and  meritorious  services  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh, Tennessee. 

Brevet  Major,  September  20,  1863,  for  gallant  and 
meritorious  services  in  the  battle  of  Chickamauga, 
Georgia. 

Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel,  September  i,  1864,  for 
gallant  and  meritorious  services  in  the  battle  of  Mission- 
ary Ridge,  Tennessee,  and  during  the  Atlanta  campaign. 

He  performed  staff  duty  as  Aide-de-camp  to  Brigadier 
General  John  H.  King,  and  as  Assistant  Inspector 
General,  Regular  Brigade,  Army  of  the  Cumberland. 

Since  the  war,  Colonel  Lyster  has  served  in  various 
Posts  in  Arkansas,  Louisiana,  Kansas,  Utah,  Texas, 
Illinois  and  New  York,  and  commanded  a  Battalion  of 
the  Nineteenth  Infantry  in  New  Orleans,  during  the  riots 
of  1873.  As  Major  of  the  Sixth  Infantry,  he  commanded 
the  two  companies  of  that  regiment  which  comprised  the 
first  garrison  of  Fort  Sheridan. 

ROBERT  H.   HALL, 
ALBERT  HARTSUFF, 
BUTLER  D.   PRICE, 

Committee. 


ALONZO   JEFFERSON    PHELPS. 

Major  and  Surgeon  and  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Nitta  Yuma,  Mississippi. 
September  28, 


1  if  HEN,  on  the  28th  of  September  last,  the  sunset  gun 
"*(.  had  boomed  its  "good-night"  salute  to  the  lower- 
ing flag  he  had  followed  through  the  tempest  of  war,  and 
while  the  shades  of  night  were  closing  about  the  home 
wherein  he  had  rounded  out  a  life  rich  in  good  works  and 
beneficent  influences,  our  Companion,  Major  and  Surgeon 
Alonzo  Jefferson  Phelps,  passed  into  the  beyond,  where 
there  is  neither  the  uncertainty  of  life,  nor  the  certainty 
of  death,  but  peace  forever. 

He  was  born  in  Piketon,  Ohio,  June  17,  1835.    Grad- 
uating from  the  University  of  Ohio  he  took  up  the  study 

348 


MEMORIALS.  349 

of  medicine  under  his  father,  Dr.  Orlando  J.  Phelps.  In 
1852  he  graduated  from  the  Columbus  Medical  College, 
and  taking  a  post-graduate  course  received  his  diploma 
from  the  New  York  College  of  Medicine  in  1854.  Re- 
turning to  his  native  town,  he  entered  into  the  active 
practice  of  his  chosen  profession  in  connection  with  his 
father.  October  31,  1861,  he  was  appointed  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  the  Thirty-third  Ohio  Infantry,  U.  S.  V.,  and 
on  December  3ist  following  was  promoted  to  Brigade 
Surgeon  (later  known  as  Surgeon  U.  S.  V.),  but  by 
reason  of  a  severe  epidemic  then  raging  in  his  regi- 
ment he  refused  to  qualify  for  the  new  position  until 
April  4,  1862,  when  he  was  commissioned  as  Major  and 
Surgeon,  U.  S.  V.  He  received  the  brevet  of  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  March  13,  1865,  "  for  faithful  and  meritorious 
services  during  the  war."  Having  tendered  his  resig- 
nation he  was  honorably  mustered  out  in  compliance 
with  Special  Order  No.  3,  War  Department,  dated  Jan- 
uary 4,  1866.  His  service  covered  a  large  territory,  he 
having  been  on  duty  continuously,  at  the  front  and  in 
the  field,  from  September  1861  to  August  1864.  He 
participated  in  the  Eastern  Kentucky  Campaign  under 
General  Nelson  and  in  Mitchell's  Division  of  the  Army 
of  Ohio.  April  22,  1862,  he  was  assigned  to  temporary 
duty  under  General  Halleck,  then  before  Corinth.  He 
was  assigned  as  Medical  Director  of  Wood's  Division  and, 
at  the  battle  of  Perryville,  of  the  left  wing  under  General 
Crittenden.  He  served  as  Medical  Director  of  the 
Twenty-first  Corps,  participating  in  the  battles  of  Stone's 
River,  the  occupation  of  Chattanooga  and  the  battles  of 
Chickamauga  and  Missionary  Ridge,  and  when  the  Twen- 
tieth and  Twenty-first  Corps  were  consolidated  to  form 
the  Fourth  Corps  he  was  assigned  to  the  Staff  of  General 
Gordon  Granger  as  Medical  Director  of  the  new  organ- 


35O  MEMORIALS. 

ization,  and  later  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland.  April 
27,  1864,  he  was  transferred,  at  the  request  of  General 
Grant,  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  where  he  was  assigned 
to  duty  as  Acting  Medical  Inspector  of  Field  Hospitals. 
At  his  own  request  he  was  relieved  August  16,  1864,  and 
assigned  to  special  duty  in  the  Northern  Department  of 
Ohio.  In  February  1865  he  was  transferred  to  the  De- 
partment of  Kentucky  and  assigned  as  Medical  Director, 
with  the  relative  rank  of  Colonel,  on  the  Staff  of  General 
John  M.  Palmer  commanding,  which  he  held  until  the 
termination  of  his  services. 

Tall  and  slender  of  stature,  graceful  and  cordial  in 
manner,  his  winning  smile  prepossessed  all  whom  he 
met  in  his  favor.  This  impression  was  justified  by  his 
manly  character  and  his  kind  and  genial  disposition.  A 
physician  of  rare  talents,  a  man  of  wide  reading,  he  was 
interested  in  his  profession  as  a  science  rather  than  art. 
During  his  tour  of  duty  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  he  met, 
and  on  October  13,  1865,  married  Miss  Mary  Vick,  a 
granddaughter  of  the  founder  of  Vicksburg,  Mississippi, 
and  a  direct  lineal  descendant  of  General  George  Rogers 
Clarke  of  the  Revolutionary  Army.  In  1877  he  removed 
permanently  to  his  beautiful  plantation  in  Nitta  Yuma, 
Mississippi.  He  leaves  surviving  him  Mrs.  Phelps  and 
four  children,  Mrs.  Nannie  W.  George,  Mr.  Henry  Vick 
Phelps,  Mary  P.  (Countess  Piola-Caselli  of  Rome,  Italy) 
and  Miss  Ellen  B.  Phelps.  To  you  then,  who,  closest 
to  his  heart,  knew  him  best  and  loved  him  the  dearest, 
and  who  sit  in  the  shadows  and  weep,  words  of  consola- 
tion are  but  hollow  sounds  and  empty  babblings.  We 
who  went  down  into  the  "Valley  of  Death,"  side  by  side 
with  our  departed  Companion  follow  you  in  your  desola- 
tion and  woe  and  with  reverent  clasp  of  the  hand  offer 
you  our  tenderest  sympathies  and  beg  to  assure  you  of  a 


MEMORIALS.  35 1 

loving  remembrance  of  him  who  awaits  us  just  beyond 

the  river. 

JOHN  J.  ABERCROMBIE, 
STANDISH  V.  CORNISH, 
JOHN  A.  GRIER, 

Committee. 


HENRY  THOMAS  PORTER. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Thirteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  United 
States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  December  9,  /<?<?7. 

^t  TENRY  THOMAS  PORTER  was  born  at  Weymouth, 
Massachusetts,  July  [3,  1832.  He  came  to  Illinois 
^—  at  an  early  date,  settled  in  DeKalb  County,  and, 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  was  largely 
instrumental  in  raising  a  company  which  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  as  Company  E,  Thirteenth 
Illinois  Infantry.  He  was  elected  and  commissioned 
Second  Lieutenant  of  the  company  prior  to  its  muster 
and  when  the  organization  of  the  regiment  was  com- 
pleted, became  its  Adjutant,  being  mustered  in  as  such 
May  24,  1 86 1.  This  regiment  was  the  first  organized  in 
the  then  Second  Congressional  District  of  this  State,  and 

352 


MEMORIALS.  353 

participated  in  Fremont's  Campaign  in  Missouri,  General 
Curtis's  Campaign  in  Arkansas,  including  the  memorable 
march  from  Pea  Ridge  to  Helena,  Arkansas,  and  was  a 
part  of  the  assaulting  column  at  Chickasaw-Bayou,  where 
its  gallant  Colonel,  John  B.  Wyman,  was  killed  and  its 
total  loss  in  killed  and  wounded  was  one  hundred  and 
eighty-three.  It  was  present  at  the  capture  of  Arkansas 
Post,  and  was  with  General  Sherman's  Corps  during  the 
siege  of  Vicksburg.  In  July,  1863,  Adjutant  Porter  was 
detailed  upon  the  Staff  of  Major  General  Eugene  A.  Carr 
and  served  with  him  until  June  18,  1864,  when  he  was 
mustered  out  with  his  regiment  at  Springfield,  Illinois, 
having  faithfully  served  his  country  and  performed  his 
duty  as  a  soldier  of  the  Union. 

He  then  engaged  in  business  in  Chicago  and  was 
elected  a  Companion  of  the  First  Class  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States  through 
the  Commandery  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  August  6,  1879, 
being  one  of  its  earliest  members.  In  later  years  he  met 
with  financial  reverses  and  finally  sought  refuge  in  the 
Soldiers'  Home  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  where  he  died  on  the 
9th  day  of  December,  1897. 

RICHARD  ROBINS, 
JOSEPH  J.  SIDDALL, 
JOHN  SARGENT, 

Committee. 


DAVID  HERRICK  GILE. 

Captain  and  Aide  de  Camp,   United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at 
Oak  Park,  Illinois,  March  ij,  1898. 

edPANION  David  Herrick  Gile,  a  member  of  this 
Commandery,  died  about  the  hour  of  two  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon,  Sunday,  March  13,  1898,  at  his  resi- 
dence in  Oak  Park,  aged  sixty-one  years  and  eight 
months.  Though  he  had  been  indisposed  by  an  attack 
of  the  grippe  for  some  two  months  before  his  death,  he 
thought  himself  fairly  convalescent  and  expected  to  be 
at  his  desk  in  the  city  on  the  following  day.  He  was 
conversing  pleasantly  with  his  family  a  few  minutes  be- 
fore the  fatal  attack,  heart  failure,  struck  him  down,  as 
suddenly  as  on  July  22,  1864,  a  bullet  of  the  enemy 
struck  to  death  his  loved  friend,  General  James  B.  Mc- 

354 


MEMORIALS.  355 

Pherson,  upon  whose  Staff,  as  Aide  de  Camp,  the  last 
year  of  his  brilliant  service  in  the  army  was  passed.  He 
left  him  surviving,  a  sister,  nieces,  a  nephew,  Major  W. 
F.  Tucker,  United  States  Army  (the  son-in-law  of  Gen- 
eral Logan)  who  is  entitled  to  be  his  successor  in  this 
Order,  a  loved  and  loving  wife,  and  an  adopted  son  and 
daughter. 

Captain  Gile  was  born  in  Corinth,  Maine,  July  18, 
1836.  Before  the  breaking  out  of  the  war,  he  came  to 
Chicago  and  was  variously  employed.  A  man  of  earnest 
patriotism  and  high  convictions  as  to  the  duties  which 
American  citizenship  impose  upon  her  sons,  he  was  (it 
has  often  been  said,  and  we  have  no  doubt  truly)  the  first 
man  in  Chicago  to  sign  his  name  to  an  enlistment  paper, 
April  13,  1 86 1. 

At  noon  of  that  day,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history 
of  our  country,  its  flag,  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  was  struck 
before  an  enemy.  That  hour  saw  it  lowered  upon  the 
walls  of  Fort  Sumter  battered  and  broken  down  by  the 
guns  of  South  Carolina.  The  young  men  of  the  North, 
realizing  then  that  they  would  soon  have  work  to  do  in 
the  defense  of  that  flag,  for  their  country,  for  the  world, 
for  freedom,  impatiently  waited  the  word  of  their  Presi- 
dent calling  them  to  a  work  which  was  for  them  all  to 
be  the  most  important,  the  most  glorious  of  their  lives, 
in  which,  alas,  so  many  were  to  give  their  young  heroic 
lives  a  sacrifice  to  Liberty.  When  Sumter  fell,  they 
could  no  longer  be  restrained  and  enlistments  began  all 
over  the  loyal  North.  Charles  W.  Barker  at  once  set 
about  the  raising  of  a  company  in  Chicago  and  Com- 
panion Gile  signed  his  name  at  the  head  of  the  list.  In 
this  company,  known  as  "Barker's  Dragoons,"  he  served 
at  Cairo  and  in  West  Virginia.  After  the  muster  out  of 
the  command,  July  18,  1861,  he  re-enlisted  August  23, 


356  MEMORIALS. 

1861,  in  Company  A,  Fourth  Illinois  Cavalry.  The 
training  in  actual  service  he  had  in  the  Dragoons,  gave 
him  the  commission  of  First  Lieutenant  in  this  company. 
He  served  with  such  credit  and  gallantry  with  this  com- 
mand in  all  of  its  marches  and  battles,  that  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Lincoln  Captain  and  Aide  de  Camp, 
September,  1863.  As  such  he  served  on  the  Staff  of 
General  McPherson,  who  commanded  the  Seventeenth 
Army  Corps,  and  afterwards  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee. 
Captain  Gile  participated  in  all  the  hard  marches  and 
bloody  battles  fought  by  that  glorious  body  of  American 
troops,  which,  beginning  at  Belmont  and  Fort  Donelson, 
and  ending  at  Goldsborough,  North  Carolina,  gained  vic- 
tory after  victory,  and,  at  Champion's  Hill  and  Vicks- 
burg,  at  Missionary  Ridge  and  Resaca,  at  Atlanta  and 
Allatoona,  and  by  its  wonderful  "March  to  the  Sea," 
secured  for  itself  a  place  on  the  page  of  honor  whereon 
are  written  great  military  achievements,  as  high  as  the 
highest  known  in  the  annals  of  the  world. 

Captain  Gile  was  as  fine  a  type  of  the  American 
soldier  as  one  could  wish  to  see,  enforcing  and  himself 
submitting  to  strict  discipline,  because,  without  the  train- 
ing of  a  military  school,  he  knew  instinctively  the  neces- 
sity of  discipline  to  an  army.  He  had  a  fine  appearance 
and  great  power  of  physical  endurance;  a  mind  clear, 
energetic  and  persisting  until  the  matter  entrusted  to 
him  was  successfully  accomplished.  In  camp  and  on 
the  march  he  was  cheerful,  genial  to  all  and  beloved  by 
all.  In  battle  he  was  absolutely  fearless  and  was  often 
entrusted  by  the  commander  of  the  army  with  the  per- 
formance of  duties  on  the  battlefield  requiring  not  alone 
personal  valor  and  promptness,  not  alone  fidelity  and 
the  utmost  reliability,  but  as  well  judgment  and  discre- 
tion in  critical  situations.  On  the  death  of  General  Me- 


MEMORIALS.  357 

Pherson,  to  him  was  assigned  the  sad  duty  of  accom- 
panying his  remains  to  his  home  at  Clyde,  Ohio. 

After  the  war,  Captain  Gile  returned  to  Chicago, 
where  he  lived  and  did  business  until  his  death. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Louise  P.  Worster,  daughter 
of  Asa  Worster,  for  many  years  a  prominent  business 
man  of  this  city.  In  civil  life,  Captain  Gile  was  univer- 
sally respected,  and  as  Alderman  of  the  old  Third  Ward 
of  Chicago  he  made  a  record  as  a  capable  and  honorable 
member  of  the  City  Council,  acting  at  all  times  for  the 
best  interests  of  the  city  and  its  taxpayers. 

He  did  a  man's  work  in  life.  He  made  his  name  one 
to  be  honored  for  all  succeeding  ages  in  our  American 
history.  He  has  passed  forever  from  our  midst  and  is 
at  rest.  Friend,  Comrade,  Companion!  We  greet  thee, 
Hail  and  Farewell! 

Resolved,  That  the  sympathy  and  the  friendship, 
which  shall  not  fail,  of  this  Commandery  and  of  all  its 
members,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  tendered  to  Mrs. 
Gile  and  the  family  of  our  Companion,  in  their  affliction 
and  sorrow. 

RICHARD  S.   TUTHILL, 
JOHN  MCARTHUR, 
W.  W.  MCLEAN, 

Committee. 


LEMUEL   LINNEAR  SCOTT. 

Captain  Eighty-fourth  Illinois  Infantry,    United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Galesburg,   Illinois,   March  /<?,   i8g8. 

OUR  Companion,  Lemuel  L.  Scott,  was  born  in  Adair 
County,  Kentucky,  September  7,  1828,  and  was  in 
the  seventieth  year  of   his   age  at  the  time  of  his 
death   on  the    iQth   day  of  March,   1898,  at  Galesburg, 
Illinois.      His  wife  Ann  Mary  Scott,  three  sons,  Eugene 
L. ,  William  A.    and   Charles   G.,  and  three   daughters, 
Mary,  Clara  and  Martha,  survive  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a 
kind  and  affectionate  husband  and  a  tender  father. 

From  his  native  place  when  a  boy  he  removed  with 
his  parents  to  McDonough  County,  Illinois,  and  settled 
on  a  farm.  His  father  died  in  1838,  and  his  mother 
died  in  1845,  thus  inuring  him  to  .the  responsibilities  of 

358 


MEMORIALS.  359 

life  early.  He  showed  a  preference  for  business  and 
secured  a  position  as  clerk  in  a  store  in  Abingdon,  Illinois, 
where  he  lived  until  he  was  twenty-two  years  of  age, 
when  he  married  the  helpmeet  of  his  life  who  survives 
him. 

Soon  after  his  marriage  he  removed  to  Vermont, 
Illinois,  where  he  continued  in  business  as  clerk  until 
August,  1862,  when  he  together  with  James  A.  Russell, 
raised  a  company  of  volunteers  for  the  Union  Army, 
which  after  organization  became  Company  B,  Eighty- 
fourth  Illinois  Infantry  Volunteers.  He  was  mustered 
into  the  service  as  First  Lieutenant  on  the  ist  day  of 
September,  1862,  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Captain  on  the  27th  day  of  October,  1863,  and  served 
as  such  until  June  8,  1865,  when  his  regiment  was 
mustered  out  of  the  service  on  account  of  the  close  of 
the  war. 

Captain  Scott  served  with  his  company  in  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland  and  took  part  in  the  many  battles  and 
marches  of  that  army.  Among  the  more  prominent 
battles  in  which  he  was  actively  engaged  were  Stone's 
River,  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary 
Ridge,  Resaca,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Atlanta,  Jonesboro, 
Nashville  and  many  other  engagements. 

At  the  battle  of  Stone's  River,  Lieutenant  Scott  was 
quite  severely  wounded,  but  remained  at  his  post  until 
the  battle  was  over,  and  afterwards  had  to  leave  his  com- 
pany a  short  time  while  his  wound  healed.  At  Chicka- 
mauga he  was  detailed  as  topographical  engineer  on  the 
Brigade  Staff  for  a  short  period,  otherwise  he  was  always 
with  his  company.  He  was  a  man  who  did  all  things 
well,  and  he  did  so  in  the  service  of  his  country.  He 
was  loved  and  highly  respected  by  the  men  with  whom 
he  served,  both  superiors  and  subordinates. 


360  MEMORIALS. 

When  he  returned  to  his  home,  he  took  a  position  as 
traveling  salesman  for  a  wholesale  grocery  firm  in  Chi- 
cago, and  continued  in  that  line  of  business  until  April, 
1895,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Wm.  A. 
Jordan,  of  Galesburg,  Illinois,  and  was  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  business  in  that  city,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Scott  &  Jordan,  until  his  death. 

It  has  been  truly  said  of  Captain  Scott  that  "his  love 
of  the  right  was  a  predominant  characteristic  and  affected 
his  whole  life.  "  He  wasuncDmpromisingly  for  the  right, 
according  to  his  best  judgment,  in  all  things.  He  had 
clear  and  strong  convictions,  yet  he  was  the  most  tender 
hearted  of  men.  He  was  of  a  cheerful  disposition  and 
sanguine  temperament,  and  it  was  always  a  pleasure  to 
meet  him,  and  to  associate  with  him  was  an  inspiration 
to  the  good  and  the  right-minded.  He  was  unswerv- 
ingly loyal  to  his  country,  his  family,  his  church  and  his 
friends.  He  lived  an  upright,  useful  life,  well  worthy  of 
emulation. 

C.   E.   LANSTRUM, 
ARTHUR  A.   SMITH, 
NELS  NELSON, 

Committee. 


WILLIAM  EDWIN  CLARKE. 

Major  and  Siirgeon  Nineteenth  Michigan  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  March  22,  i8g8. 

ON  THE  morning  of  March  22,   1898,  death  removed 
from    our     Companionship     Dr.    William    Edwin 
Clarke  of  River  Forest,  bringing  sorrow  and  sad- 
ness to  a  wide  circle  of  devoted  relatives  and  friends. 

Dr.  Clarke  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1819,  and  while  yet  a  child  his  parents  moved 
to  Rochester,  New  York.  Until  his  fourteenth  year  his 
education  was  almost  wholly  under  the  immediate  super- 
vision of  his  mother,  who  was  highly  cultivated  and  a 
lady  of  decided  Christian  character;  a  descendant  of  the 
noted  preacher  and  President  of  Princeton  College, 
Jonathan  Edwards. 


362  MEMORIALS. 

In  1833  he  entered  Rochester  Academy  where  he 
pursued  his  studies  until  1840,  when,  having  fully  de- 
cided upon  his  life  work,  he  commenced  the  study  of 
medicine  under  the  preceptorship  of  Dr.  E.  M.  Moore, 
meanwhile  attending  lectures  at  the  Berkshire  Medical 
College  in  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts. 

Subsequently  he  attended  two  courses  of  lectures  at 
the  Vermont  Medical  College,  where  he  graduated  in 
1845.  Throughout  his  medical  course  of  study  he  mani- 
fested the  same  aggressive  earnestness  in  his  profession 
which  was  so  characteristic  of  him  during  more  than  fifty 
years  of  successful  professional  life.  While  a  student  as 
well  as  in  maturer  years  he  was  ever  ready  to  investigate 
any  subject,  scientific  or  otherwise,  which  gave  promise 
of  helpfulness  to  his  fellow-men. 

Professor  Henry  M.  Lyman,  in  his  work  entitled 
"Artificial  Anaesthesia  and  Anaesthetics,"  says  of  him: 
"During  the  year  1839  a  young  student  of  chemistry  in 
the  city  of  Rochester,  New  York,  William  E.  Clarke,  by 
name,  now  a  veteran  physician  of  Chicago,  was  in  the 
habit  of  entertaining  his  companions  with  inhalations  of 
ether.  At  Berkshire  Medical  College,  during  the  winter 
of  1841-1842  Clarke  diligently  propagated  this  convivial 
method  among  his  fellow  students.  Emboldened  by 
these  experiences  in  January,  1842,  having  returned  to 
Rochester,  he  administered  ether  from  a  towel  to  a  young 
woman  named  Hobbie  and  one  of  her  teeth  was  then 
extracted  without  pain  by  a  dentist  named  Elijah  Pope." 

So  far  as  we  have  been  able  to  ascertain  this  is  the 
first  historic  account  of  the  successful  administration  of 
ether,  resulting  in  a  painless  surgical  operation  of  any 
sort. 

Immediately  after  graduating  he  returned  to  Rochester 
and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  1847,  two 


MEMORIALS.  363 

years  later,  he  moved  to  Michigan  where  he  remained  in 
practice,  with  the  exception  of  a  brief  interval,  until  1861, 
when  he  entered  the  service  as  Surgeon  of  the  Fourth 
Michigan  Infantry  Regiment,  and  was  with  that  regi- 
ment at  Munson's  Hill,  opposite  Washington,  and  on  the 
march  and  in  the  battles  of  the  Peninsular  campaign 
under  General  McClellan. 

At  the  request  of  his  cousin,  N.  C.  Gilbert,  Colonel 
of  the  Nineteenth  Michigan  Infantry,  he  was  transferred 
to  that  regiment.  In  July,  1863,  he  resigned  on  account 
of  illness  caused  by  confinement  while  a  prisoner  of  war. 
After  a  few  months  he  partially  regained  his  health  and 
was  again  commissioned  and  placed  in  charge  of  Carver 
United  States  General  Hospital  in  Washington,  District 
of  Columbia,  where  he  remained  until  the  close  of  the 
war. 

In  1865  he  came  to  Chicago  where  he  was  in  active 
practice  until  two  years  ago,  when  he  moved  to  River 
Forest. 

January  25,  1849,  Dr.  Clarke  was  married  to  Harriet 
Hale  at  Marshall,  Michigan.  She  died  in  Washington 
June  19,  1864.  His  second  marriage  to  Mary  L.  Reed, 
occurred  at  Lake  Forest,  December,  1865. 

He  was  the  father  of  two  children,  William  E.  Clarke, 
Jr.,  and  Grace,  now  Mrs.  Glenn  E.  Plumb,  both  by  his 
second  wife. 

He  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  consulting 
staff  of  the  Women's  and  Children's  Hospital,  also  of  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital. 

He  was  an  honored  member  of  the  State  Medical 
Society,  the  American  Medical  Association  and  the  Chi- 
cago Medical  Society  of  which  he  was  president  at  one 
time. 

For  twenty-seven  years  previous  to  his  death  he  was 


364  MEMORIALS. 

a  Deacon  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  this  city 
and  during  his  long  service  he  was  always  loyal  to  the 
Pastor  and  the  best  interests  of  the  church. 

During  his  long  professional  career  he  always  re- 
mained in  touch  with  the  advanced  thinkers  and  more 
enterprising  of  his  medical  brethren.  Possessed  of  a 
cordial,  kind-hearted  personality,  he  was  surrounded  by 
many  friends.  He  was  always  ready  and  anxious  to  do 
charity  work  among  the  worthy  poor,  and  the  colored 
people,  during  the  war  and  since,  have  had  his  especial 
sympathy. 

We  may  truly  say  that  his  whole  life  was  conse- 
crated to  relieve  the  sorrows  and  sufferings  of  his  fellow- 
men  and  to  make  the  world  better  for  his  having  lived, 
and  we  most  sincerely  extend  our  sympathy  to  his  be- 
reaved family. 

Z.   R.   HANSON, 
E.   D.   REDINGTON, 
J.    H.    MOORE, 

Committee. 


CHARLES  WASHINGTON  MEYERS. 

Major  and  Surgeon  Eighty -second  Ohio  Infantry,   United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Clinton,  louua,  April  21,  i8q8. 

/HARLES  WASHINGTON  MEYERS  was  born  in 
\^__  the  village  of  Gambier,  County  of  Knox,  and 
State  of  Ohio,  April  30,  1839,  and  died  in  Clinton,  Iowa, 
April  21,  1898.  He  spent  his  earlier  boyhood  days  in 
his  native  village,  worked  in  a  drug  store,  and  attended 
the  local  academy.  After  completing  the  course  there, 
he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  and  graduated 
from  the  Western  Reserve  College  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  a 
branch  of  the  State  University,  in  February,  1861.  He 
also  took  a  course  at  the  State  University  in  Ann  Arbor, 
Michigan. 

He  then  proffered  his  services  to  the  Governor  of 

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366  MEMORIALS. 

Ohio  and  was  commissioned  and  assigned  to  the  Eighty- 
second  Regiment  Ohio  Volunteers,  as  Assistant  Surgeon 
with  rank  of  First  Lieutenant,  May  16,  1862;  was  pro- 
moted Surgeon,  with  rank  of  Major,  May  4,  1864,  and 
served  in  this  grade  until  mustered  out,  May  28,  1865. 

April  20,  1863,  he  married  Miss  Lauraett  L.  Corbin, 
of  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  and  to  them  were  born  four 
children — Charles,  who  died  in  infancy;  Minnie,  now 
Mrs.  Austin;  Mary,  now  Mrs.  Bollman,  and  Frank  W. 
Meyers.  Mrs.  Meyers  and  the  children  all  reside  in  the 
city  of  Clinton,  Iowa. 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  Major  Meyers  practiced  his 
profession  at  St.  Johns,  Michigan,  for  several  years.  In 
1869  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Clinton,  Iowa,  and 
entered  upon  a  successful  practice,  occupying  the  same 
office  for  twenty-nine  years.  He  held  many  positions  of 
trust  in  civil  life,  being  the  physician  for  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul  Railway  and  the  Burlington, 
Cedar  Rapids  and  Northern  Railway;  was  Coroner  of  the 
County  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  had  held  the  office 
for  many  years,  and  was  one  of  the  members  of  the  Pen- 
sion Examining  Board  from  its  organization,  through  all 
the  different  administrations,  until  his  health  failed  him 
within  the  past  year. 

Surgeon  Meyers  was  a  kind  and  indulgent  husband 
and  father;  and  had  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  all  his 
patients,  both  in  the  service  and  in  civil  practice. 

His  regiment  was  in  the  Eleventh  Corps,  Army  of  the 
Potomac,  which  came  West  with  General  Hooker's  com- 
mand, under  General  Howard,  and  when  the  Eleventh 
and  Twelfth  Corps  were  consolidated  became  the  Twen- 
tieth Corps,  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  later  on  the  Army 
of  Georgia,  under  General  Slocum. 

Major  Meyers  was  a  Mason,  in  good  standing;  a  mem- 


MEMORIALS.  367 

ber  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and 
also  a  member  of  the  Union  Veteran  Union,  Lookout 
Mountain  Command,  which  took  charge  of  his  funeral 
when  he  was  laid  down  in  his  last  bivouac  in  Springdale 
Cemetery,  Clinton,  Iowa,  surrounded  by  his  family,  com- 
rades and  neighbors,  to  await  the  final  reveille. 

JOSEPH  D.   FEGAN, 
JOHN  C.   NEELY, 
WILLIAM  B.   KEELER, 

Committee. 


EDWARD  STANLEY  WORTHINGTON. 

Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  May  21,  1898. 

pDWARD  STANLEY  WORTHINGTON  died  May 
21,  1898,  just  thirty-six  years  to  the  day  after  his 
^>~*  patriotic  father  was  shot  and  instantly  killed  at 
Corinth.  He  died  on  this  soldier-anniversary  so  sacred 
in  his  family. 

Edward  Worthington  had  no  opportunity  to  take  up 
arms  for  his  country;  but  he  inherited  the  qualities  upon 
which  his  country  could  have  confidently  relied  in  any 
great  need.  He  had  a  just  and  quietly  determined  sense 
of  duty  which  would  have  made  him  devoted  and  stead- 
fast in  a  national  emergency,  and  which  lifted  his  life,  as 
it  was,  into  whatever  devotion  to  principle  and  adher- 
ence to  ideals  its  opportunities  and  demands  made  requi- 

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MEMORIALS.  369 

site.  He  was  not  a  soldier,  for  lack  of  the  national  need; 
but  he  was  worthy  to  be  the  son  of  a  man  who  was  a 
soldier  without  fear  and  without  reproach.  He  was  born 
at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  November  23,  1858.  He  was  not  yet 
forty  years  old  when  he  died,  and  was  a  little  child  when 
his  father,  Colonel  William  H.  Worthington,  having  at 
the  outbreak  of  hostilities  gone  into  our  war  at  the  head 
of  the  Fifth  Volunteers  of  Iowa,  died,  a  young  man  of 
thirty-three,  doing  his  duty  both  bravely  and  graciously. 

It  was  through  service  done  the  nation  by  his  father 
that  Edward  Worthington  became  a  member  of  the  Loyal 
Legion — a  way  of  entrance  into  the  Order  that  was  most 
grateful  to  this  loyal  son.  Of  the  services  and  honors  of 
the  father,  the  son  was  justly  jealous  and  proud. 

Colonel  Worthington  was  born  November  2,  1828,  in 
Mercer  County,  Kentucky.  He  graduated  with  honor  at 
Bacon  College,  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  studied  and  prac- 
ticed law  in  Harrodsburg,  and  at  the  same  time  managed 
his  landed  property  in  the  vicinity.  He  inherited  wealth 
and  position,  and  had  literary  tastes  and  leisure  enough 
to  indulge  them.  He  came  of  a  distinguished  family,  his 
maternal  grandfather  being  General  Gabriel  Slaughter, 
who  was  with  Jackson  as  a  favorite  officer  at  New  Orleans, 
and  was  twice  Governor  of  Kentucky.  Through  his  father, 
Rev.  John  Tolly  Wrorthington,  he  was  descended  from 
Captain  Rowland  Madison,  a  nephew  of  President  Madi- 
son. He  married  Miss  Anna  Lewis,  whose  father  was 
General  Andrew  Lewis,  also  a  man  of  distinction.  So 
that  Edward  Stanley  Worthington  came,  on  both  sides, 
of  ancestry  honorable  and  distinguished. 

Edward  Worthington  was  of  the  leading  and  success- 
ful firm  of  Norton  &  Worthington,  of  Chicago,  and  was 
a  man  of  sterling  business  qualities.  His  character  and 
ideals,  which  were  so  high  in  private  life,  he  carried  un- 


3/O  MEMORIALS. 

changed  into  his  business  career.  He  received  his  first 
business  training  at  Keokuk,  Iowa.  Later  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  Henry  Clews  &  Company,  of  New  York,  Mr. 
Clews  being  his  brother-in-law.  From  New 'York  he 
came,  in  1884,  to  Chicago,  and  joined  Mr.  Norton.  In 
1889  he  married  Miss  Olivia  Porter,  a  daughter  of  the 
late  Hibbard  Porter.  He  has  left  no  children.  His  life 
had  developed  into  happiness  and  success.  It  ended 
wholly  prematurely.  He  had  just  built  a  new  home;  but 
the  sudden  seriousness  of  an  illness  took  him  first  to  Cali- 
fornia and  then  brought  him  back  to  Chicago  with  his 
health  gone  and  his  life  quite  at  its  end.  He  did  not 
live  to  enter  or  to  see  his  new  home. 

He  has  left  behind  him  an  abundant  circle  of  grieving 
and  admiring  friends.  He  was  a  man  of  positive  char- 
acter, clear-cut  views  and  direct  expression,  so  that  no 
one  failed  to  realize  his  strong  individuality.  But  he 
had  that  rare  generosity  of  nature,  that  rare  and  delicate 
devotion  to  family  and  friends,  that  active  sense  of  all 
men's  rights,  that  ever  saving  sense  of  kindly  humor  and 
that  unfailing  charm  of  manner  which  together  make  up 
an  attractive  personality  such  as  marks  a  man  as  part  of 
the  best  there  is  in  the  world.  Business  and  money 
making  left  his  mind  without  a  touch  that  was  sordid; 
his  experience  of  life  only  broadened  his  sympathies  and 
completed  his  tolerance;  and  as  his  years  came,  one  after 
the  other,  they  added  increased  attractions  to  his  char- 
acter and  constant  increase  to  the  attachment  of  his 
friends. 

HUNTINGTON    W.   JACKSON, 

CHARLES  S.   MCENTEE, 
GURDON  G.   MOORE, 

Committee. 


ARCHIBALD    MEANS. 

Captain  Fourteenth  Kentucky   Infantry,    United  States   Volunteers 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  May  22,  i8q8. 

'TLRCHIBALD  MEANS  was  born  in  Allegheny  County, 
f\      Pennsylvania,  March  31,  1833,  and  died  at  Chicago, 
^Illinois,  May  22,   1898. 

He  was  descended  from  Scotch-Irish  ancestors,  who 
emigrated  to  this  country  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  War; 
indeed,  on  his  mother's  side,  his  ancestors  had  emigrated 
as  early  as  1657. 

Captain  Means  acquired  an  academic  education,  but, 
because  of  impaired  health,  at  the  age  of  eighteen  went 
upon  a  farm,  in  the  hope  that  outdoor  exercise  would 
recuperate  his  energies.  In  1853  he  removed  from  Ohio 
to  Kentucky,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  the 
breaking  out  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 

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372  MEMORIALS. 

He  voted  for  Mr.  Buchanan  in  1856  and  for  Mr.  Lin- 
coln in  1860.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  war,  in  June, 
1 86 1,  he  recruited  a  company  of  loyal  men  of  Kentucky, 
which  was  afterwards  known  as  Company  E,  Fourteenth 
Regiment  Kentucky  Volunteers.  He  was  elected  Captain 
of  the  company,  receiving  his  commission  October  16, 
1 86 1.  He  was  assigned  to  General  James  A.  Garfield's 
Brigade  and  served  until  October,  1862,  when,  on  ac- 
count of  ill  health,  he  was  obliged  to  resign.  After  the 
battle  of  Cumberland  Mountain,  Captain  Means  was  taken 
ill,  and  sent  home  on  a  leave  of  absence.  It  was  thought 
by  his  comrades  that  he  would  never  live  to  again  rejoin 
the  army.  He,  however,  recovered,  and  was  assigned  to 
the  Staff  of  General  A.  J.  Smith,  where  he  served  until 
October,  1862. 

After  his  resignation  he  located  in  Pittsburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  later  in  Manchester,  Ohio.  In  1871  he 
removed  to  Peru,  Illinois,  and  at  once  took  a  prominent 
position  in  the  commercial  affairs  of  that  city.  He  was 
foremost  in  the  erection  of  the  extensive  zinc  works  at 
that  place,  and  has  since  been  a  large  stockholder  and 
its  Vice-President  and  Manager,  capably  directing  its 
affairs,  until.it  has  become  one  of  the  leading  industries 
in  that  section  of  the  State.  He  was  a  man  of  progres- 
sive methods,  of  great  diligence  in  business,  and  of  sound 
judgment,  and  the  success  of  this  great  enterprise,  of 
which  he  was  practically  the  promoter  and  manager,  at- 
tests his  well  deserved  success. 

Captain  Means  was  thrice  married,  and  leaves  sur- 
viving him  his  widow  and  four  children,  William  E. ,  Arch- 
ibald L. ,  Sadie  and  Allen  H.  Means. 

He  was  a  fearless  defender  of  what  he  believed  to  be 
right,  and  he  courageously  defined  and  defended  his 
course  in  espousing  the  Union  cause  in  Kentucky,  which 


MEMORIALS.  373 

required  great  nerve  and  steadfastness  of  purpose.  If 
more  was  required  to  demonstrate  this  characteristic  of 
Captain  Means,  it  might  be  added  that  he  was  one  of 
eleven  only,  in  the  county  in  which  he  lived,  who  voted 
for  Mr.  Lincoln  in  1860.  Having  been  previously  rec- 
ognized as  a  democrat,  it  required  a  degree  of  manly 
courage,  scarcely  now  to  be  comprehended,  to  advocate 
and  vote  the  republican  ticket  in  the  face  of  the  slave- 
holders in  control  of  political  affairs  in  that  part  of  the 
State. 

He  was  a  charter  member  and  an  active  worker  in 
E.  N.  Kirk  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and,  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  its  Commander.  On  March  10, 
1892,  he  became  a  member  of  this  Commandery  and 
always  took  an  active  interest  in  the  maintenance  of  its 
honor  and  integrity.  He  also  took  an  active  interest  in 
all  local  affairs  in  Peru,  and  did  much  and  effective  work 
in  the  cause  of  the  city  and  of  public  education.  He  was 
quiet  and  unassuming,  and  commanded  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  the  people  at  large,  while  to  his  large  circle 
of  friends  and  acquaintances  he  was  more  than  the  mere 
friend — he  was  counsellor,  adviser  and  guide. 

It  can  be  truly  said  of  him  that  he  has  deserved  well 
of  his  country,  and  the  service  he  has  performed  in  in- 
culcating patriotism  and  loyalty  to  the  Government,  its 
Constitution  and  laws,  has  been  only  less  honorable  than 
the  service  he  performed  in  the  field. 

So  has  passed  away  another  of  the  old  guard  of  the 
honor  of  the  Republic.  Devoted  to  his  family  and  to 
his  friends,  and  to  the  best  interests  of  the  community 
in  which  he  lived,  it  may  be  that  no  national  monument 
will  guard  his  resting  place,  but  by  his  unfaltering  devo- 
tion to  the  principles  that  underlie  American  liberty,  he 
has  earned  deserved  mention  in  the  annals  of  the  nation. 


374  MEMORIALS. 

In  his  neighborhood,  throughout  all  the  localities  that 
knew  him,  he  will  be  remembered. as  a  kindly,  generous 
man — as  the  unswerving  and  unfaltering  advocate  of  the 
right,  as  the  true  and  loyal  friend  and  genial  Companion. 

DOUGLAS  HAPEMAN, 
JOHN  D.  CRABTREE, 
JOHN  MCWILLIAMS, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  WILLIAM  CANDEE. 

Colonel  and  Assistant  Paymaster  General,  United  States  Army. 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  June  10,  i8g8. 


OLONEL  George  W.  Candee,  Assistant  Paymaster 
General,  and  Chief  Paymaster,  Department  of  the 
Lakes,  was  born  in  New  Jersey,  April  2,  1836,  and  ap- 
pointed from  civil  life  into  the  army  from  Illinois. 

Additional  Paymaster,  U.  S.  V.,  February  23,  1864; 
accepted,  April  18,  1864;  honorably  mustered  out,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1866;  appointed  Major  and  Paymaster,  United 
States  Army,  January  17,  1867;  accepted,  April  11,  1867; 
promoted  Deputy  Paymaster  General  with  rank  of  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel,  United  States  Army,  January  22,  1893; 
promoted  Assistant  Paymaster  General  with  rank  of 
Colonel,  United  States  Army,  January  7,  1897. 

375 


376  MEMORIALS. 

His  early  duties  were  in  New  Orleans,  Mobile,  etc. ; 
afterwards  on  duty  in  the  Southwest.  In  January,  1870, 
he  was  ordered  to  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  and  paid  the 
troops  at  posts  in  that  region;  was  badly  frozen  on  several 
of  his  pay  trips  in  the  North.  In  1 878  he  was  ordered  to 
Washington,  and  from  there  paid  the  troops  around  that 
city.  In  September,  1882,  he  was  ordered  to  Chicago, 
and  in  1886  to  St.  Louis.  In  1887  he  was  ordered  to 
Helena,  Montana;  in  1890  to  Chicago;  in  1892  to  Detroit, 
Michigan,  and  in  1893  again  to  Chicago,  where  he  died 
June  10,  1898,  surrounded  by  his  family — a  wife  and 
four  children. 

Colonel  Candee  was  always  active  and  faithful  in  the 
discharge  of  all  his  duties,  a  genial  Companion,  a  loving 
husband,  and  a  kind  and  indulgent  parent. 

THOMAS  F.   BARR, 
A.   HARTSUFF, 
AUGUSTUS   H.    BAINBRIDGE, 

Committee. 


CHARLES   WAITE. 

Colonel  Twenty-seventh  Michigan   Infantry,   and  Brevet  Brigadier 

General,  United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Boulder, 

Colorado,  June  23,  i8q8. 

ONCE  more  the  members  of  the  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States  are  called  upon 
to  mourn  the  loss  of  another  beloved,  valued  and 
cherished  Companion  of  the  Illinois  Commandery.     Gen- 
eral Charles  Waite  died  at  Boulder,  Colorado,  on  June 
23,  1898.      He  was  a  man  of  high  moral  and  intellectual 
worth. 

General  Waite  was  born  in  Orange  County,  Vermont, 
April  i,  1837.  His  father's  family  moved  to  Genesee 
County,  New  York,  in  1840,  and  settled  in  DeKalb 
County,  Illinois,  in  1854.  General  Waite  not  only  re- 

377 


378  MEMORIALS. 

ceived  the  training  of  the  public  schools,  but  studied  a 
year  at  Warrentown  (Illinois)  Academy,  and  two  years  at 
Beloit  College.  On  concluding  his  studies,  he  was  in- 
duced to  go  to  Northern  Michigan,  where  he  was  Super- 
intendent of  the  Public  Schools  of  Rockland  for  several 
years. 

In  the  fall  of  1 862  he  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Twenty- 
seventh  Michigan  Infantry  Volunteers,  and  was  commis- 
sioned First  Lieutenant  October  10,  1862.  On  the 
1 2th  day  of  April,  1863,  just  two  years  after  the  fall  of 
Fort  Sumter,  his  regiment  started  for  the  field  of  active 
duty,  and  served  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  taking 
part  in  the  siege  of  Knoxville,  and  was  then,  in  April, 
1864,  transferred  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  where  it 
continued,  participating  in  all  the  advance  movements  of 
the  army  under  Grant  until  the  close  of  the  war.  It  was 
at  Fort  Mahone  that  his  regiment  rendered  the  most 
conspicuous  service  in  its  history.  Colonel  Waite  was 
in  command,  and  performed  an  act  of  gallant  service 
such  as  is  seldom  equaled  in  the  annals  of  military  ex- 
ploits, and  to  which  reference  will  be  made  later.  His 
regiment  participated  in  the  pursuit  of  Lee's  retreating 
army,  and  was  present  at  the  final  act  of  surrender. 

From  "  Michigan  in  the  War"  the  following  record  is 
taken:  "Charles  Waite,  Rockland,  First  Lieutenant 
Twenty-seventh  Infantry,  October  10,  1862;  Captain, 
May  i,  1863;  wounded  in  action  at  Spottsylvania,  Vir- 
ginia, May  12,  1864;  Lieutenant  Colonel,  November  18, 
1864;  Colonel,  March  6,  1865;  Brevet  Brigadier  General 
U.  S.  V.,  April  2,  1865." 

In  his  military  career  few  have  shown  such  ability, 
adaptability  and  courage,  and  in  so  short  a  time  (only  a 
little  over  two  years  and  a  half)  perhaps  no  man  ever 
did  more  to  show  the  true  metal  of  character  than  our 


MEMORIALS.  379 

departed  brother.  From  a  private  to  a  Brigadier  Gen- 
eral in  that  short  time  meant  not  simply  the  chance  and 
change  wrought  by  the  vicissitudes  of  war,  but  that  the 
right  man  was  found  to  step  into  the  places  made  vacant 
by  the  circumstances.  In  the  charge  at  Fort  Mahone, 
when  urged  by  the  brigade  commander  not  to  attempt 
the  feat,  but  to  turn  to  the  right  and  come  within  the 
intrenchrnents,  brave  Colonel  Waite  cried  out,  "Fort  or 
nothing  !  "  and  the  slogan  went  from  man  to  man  through- 
out the  regiment,  the  day  was  won,  and  the  fort  was 
stormed  and  held.  In  recognition  of  this  signal  act  of 
bravery,  Colonel  Waite  was  made  Brevet  Brigadier  Gen- 
eral, for  conspicuous  gallantry  in  the  assault  upon  Peters- 
burg, Virginia. 

After  the  war  General  Waite  returned  to  Illinois, 
where  he  engaged  in  general  merchandising  until  1869, 
when  he  settled  in  Lena,  Illinois,  and  embarked  in  the 
drug  business,  but  retired  from  the  latter  a  few  years 
later  and  began  the  banking  business,  in  which  he  was 
eminently  successful,  as  he  had  been  in  every  other  ac- 
tivity and  enterprise. 

General  Waite  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Emily 
Clement,  of  Laporte,  Indiana,  October  11,  1866.  There 
were  three  children  born  of  this  union,  Charles  Clement, 
Daniel  and  Frederick  P.,  all  of  whom  are  living.  Mrs. 
Waite  departed  this  life  February  20,  1884,  leaving  be- 
hind her  the  fragrant  memory  of  a  consistent  Christian 
life,  a  rich  legacy  to  her  devoted  husband  and  loving 
sons,  yet  in  the  tender  years  of  youth. 

A  few  years  ago  General  Waite's  own  health  began  to 
break,  the  direct  result  of  the  severe  wound  received  at 
the  battle  of  Spottsylvania,  and  while  he  fought  the 
ghastly  monster  consumption,  he  exhibited  the  same 
bravery  and  fortitude  he  had  displayed  throughout  his 


380  MEMORIALS. 

life,  only  finally  to  obey  the  summons  of  his  Great  Com- 
mander above,  retiring  to  his  couch  and  quietly  sleeping 
his  life  away. 

Rest,  weary  comrade,  rest, 

Rest  on  thy  honored  sheaves, 

Thy  harvest  work  is  done; 

Companion,  farewell;  with  thee  the  fight  is  won. 

Those  who  knew  General  Waite  personally  sorrow  in 
the  loss  of  a  manly  Companion  and  an  affectionate  friend. 
In  his  private  life  he  had  ever  been  inflexibly  honest  and 
ever  true  to  his  own  convictions  of  right.  He  was  a 
useful  citizen  and  neighbor,  a  kind,  sympathetic  and 
helpful  friend,  an  earnest,  truthful,  trustful,  Christian 
gentleman.  But  few  men  have  identified  their  names 
and  careers  more  indelibly  with  the  history  of  the  volun- 
teer army  than  he,  and  the  precious  heritage  belongs  to 
us,  his  companions  in  arms,  as  well  as  to  his  immediate 
family.  His  life  of  success  and  usefulness  will  be  a  les- 
son to  this  and  future  generations  of  young  men,  for  he 
was  as  brave  and  as  faithful  as  he  was  kind,  genial  and 
generous.  We  loved  and  honored  him  living,  and  mourn 
him  dead.  To  his  ashes  peace,  to  his  memory  everlast- 
ing honor. 

JAMES  A.   SEXTON, 
CHARLES  R.   E.   KOCH, 
WILLIAM  TODD, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON   SMITH. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Eighty-eighth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  Brevet 

Brigadier  General,  United  States  Volunteers.    Died  at 

Chicago,  Illinois,  September  16,  i8q8. 

'TYjNOTHER  gallant  soldier  who  devotedly  did  his  part 
f\  towards  the  salvation  of  our  country  in  the  days 
^s-"  of  its  sore  need,  1861  to  1865,  another  good  citi- 
zen has  gone  from  among  us,  and  again  our  Commandery 
is  called  upon  to  mourn. 

On  the  1 6th  day  of  September,  1898,  our  late  Com- 
panion, Lieutenant  Colonel  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General 
George  Washington  Smith,  departed  this  life  at  the  age 
of  sixty-two  years,  after  an  illness  sudden  in  its  close, 
but  which  had  for  years  sapped  his  strength  and  vitality, 
and  sorely  tried  his  fortitude  and  patience. 

381 


382  MEMORIALS. 

How  many  have  already  gone;  how  rapidly  they  are 
going;  and  how  many  soon  must  follow ! 

Happy  indeed  will  these  be  if  their  record  of  life  be 
so  gallant,  so  pure  and  so  stainless  as  his  for  whom  we 
now  mourn. 

George  W.  Smith  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
Januarys,  1837.  From  1848  to  1854  he  attended  school 
at  the  academy  in  Albany,  New  York,  with  the  exception 
of  one  year,  which  he  passed  in  the  office  of  the  Benton  & 
Albany  Railroad  Company.  Early  desirous  to  be  self- 
supporting,  he  went  to  Helena,  Arkansas,  in  1854,  to 
teach  school.  The  school  for  which  he  had  been  engaged 
being  abandoned,  he,  not  willing  to  confess  defeat,  him- 
self established  a  school  of  fifty  scholars  in  the  country, 
about  twelve  miles  from  Helena,  which  he  conducted 
with  success  for  a  year. 

In  the  spring  of  1856  he  returned  to  Albany,  and  be- 
gan the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  John  H.  Reynolds, 
and  also  took  a  complete  course  of  instruction  at  the 
Albany  Law  School.  Having  finished  his  studies,  his 
enterprising  nature  led  him  to  desire  a  newer  and  wider 
field  for  his  work  than  the  older  states  and  cities  afford- 
ed, and,  removing  to  Chicago  in  1858,  he  opened  a  modest 
law  office  at  No.  10  South  Clark  street.  Here  he  was 
devoting  himself  to  the  slow  and  plodding  life  'of  the 
young  attorney.  Here  he  was  learning  to — 
"Scorn  delights  and  live  laborious  days;" 

here  he  was  studying  and  planning  and  working  to  lay 
deep  and  broad  the  foundations  of  future  success  in  the 
profession  to  which  he  had  devoted  himself. 

But  into  this  quiet  life  in  1861  came  the  dread  shad- 
ows of  the  Civil  War,  and  he  saw  his  beloved  country 
threatened  with  destruction  at  the  hands  of  enraged  and 
unreasoning  men  of  the  South;  and  then  commenced  in 


MEMORIALS.  383 

his  soul,  as  in  the  soul  of  many  another  youth  of  that  day, 
the  struggle  between  the  calls  of  duty  and  of  inclination, 
between  the  settled  and  established  plan  of  his  life  and  the 
call  to  throw  all  selfish  interests  to  the  winds  and  to  devote 
life,  honor,  everything,  to  the  service  of  his  country — man- 
fully to  risk  all  for  her  rescue  and  salvation. 

His  days  were  disturbed  and  his  nights  were  without 
rest.  He  hoped  that  the  trouble  would  blow  over,  and 
that  passionate  and  ambitious  leaders  would  be  con- 
vinced and  return  to  their  allegiance  before  bloody  strife 
became  inevitable;  but,  like  others,  he  hoped  without 
hope,  and  before  long  the  roar  of  artillery,  the  crash  of 
musketry  and  all  the  din  of  actual  warfare  rolled  from 
our  Southern  border  and  swept  through  every  Northern 
community,  calling  to  arms  every  sound  and  able-bodied 
man  and  youth. 

With  many  other  members  of  this  Commandery  then 
beginning  life  in  Chicago,  George  W.  Smith  left  all  to 
follow  duty.  He  joined  a  company  hastily  formed  and 
offered  to  the  Governor  for  immediate  service.  But 
already  the  uprising  of  Northern  men  had  been  so  general 
that  the  State's  quota  was  full,  and  the  services  of  the 
company  was  not  accepted. 

Like  many  other  men  of  that  company  he  returned 
half-hearted  to  the  pursuits  of  common  life,  but  con- 
vinced that  the  call  for  men  must  soon  be  more  urgent, 
he  continued  to  drill  and  to  study  tactics  to  fit  himself 
for  usefulness  when  the  emergency  should  come.  In 
August,  1862,  the  Eighty-eighth  Regiment  of  Illinois  Vol- 
unteer Infantry  was  raised  in  Chicago,  and  George  W. 
Smith  went  into  camp  at  Camp  Douglas  as  Captain  of 
Company  A  of  that  regiment. 

In  September  he  moved  to  the  front  with  the  regi- 
ment, and  he  served  with  it  throughout  the  war,  never 


384  MEMORIALS. 

absent  from  duty  except  when  incapacitated  by  frequent 
wounds.  As  soon  as  a  wound  was  healed  he  was  again 
on  duty  and  gallantly  leading  his  men  against  the  enemy. 
He  did  not  fail  to  participate  in  every  battle  in  which 
this  very  active  regiment  was  engaged.  His  conspicuous 
personal  courage,  steadiness  and  ability  early  attracted 
attention,  and  naturally  he  was  selected  by  his  comrades 
for  promotion.  On  the  first  vacancy  among  the  field 
officers,  in  1863,  he  was  promoted  to  Major  of  the  regi- 
ment, and  in  1864  to  Lieutenant  Colonel.  His  gallantry, 
devotion  and  conspicuously  good  service  secured  to  him 
what  further  reward  could  be  given  by  a  grateful  Govern- 
ment, and  for  gallantry  and  meritorious  conduct  he  was 
brevetted  successively  Colonel  and  Brigadier  General. 

The  Eighty-eighth  Regiment  was  engaged  in  its  first 
battle  at  Perryville,  Kentucky,  just  one  month  and  four 
days  after  leaving  Chicago,  and  here  it  won  its  first  dis- 
tinction, Captain  Smith  being  notable  for  courage,  cool- 
ness and  good  conduct.  Soon  after  this  followed  the 
bloody  battle  of  Stone's  River.  On  this  fiercely  contested 
field,  where  men  faced  the  merciless  volleys  from  cannon 
and  musketry  by  day,  and  after  dark  the  more  cruel  rigors 
of  the  raw  winter  night  without  fires  or  shelter,  Captain 
Smith  was  severely  wounded  and  captured  by  the  enemy. 

Four  days  later  he  managed  to  escape,  and  on  an  old 
horse  with  a  rope  bridle  and  no  saddle,  which  a  negro 
helped  him  to  mount,  he  made  his  way  back  to  the  Union 
lines.  He  was  then  sent  back  to  Nashville,  and  thence 
to  Chicago,  where  care  and  good  nursing  restored  him  to 
health  and  strength  just  in  time  for  him  to  rejoin  his 
command  at  Murfreesboro,  Tennessee,  as  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland  moved  forward  upon  the  Middle  Ten- 
nessee Campaign. 

Passing  safely  through  the    battle  of  Chickamauga, 


MEMORIALS.  385 

Captain  Smith,  while  acting  as  Major  of  the  regiment, 
was  again  severely  wounded,  in  the  battle  of  Mission 
Ridge.  Having  recovered  and  rejoined  his  command 
before  it  moved  forward  with  Sherman's  Army  upon  the 
Atlanta  Campaign,  he  participated  with  his  usual  gal- 
lantry, enterprise  and  activity  in  the  battles  of  Rocky- 
Face  Ridge  and  Resaca,  and  in  the  unfortunate  but 
bloody  charge  upon  Kenesaw  Mountain,  where,  Lieuten- 
ant Colonel  George  W.  Chandler  having  been  killed,  the 
command  of  the  regiment  devolved  upon  its  Major. 

Soon  after  this,  Major  Smith  was  promoted  to  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel,  and  as  such  commanded  the  regiment 
until  its  return  to  Chicago  on  June  12,  1865,  having  in 
its  ranks  at  that  time  two  hundred  men  out  of  the  nine 
hundred  with  which  it  went  to  the  front  in  September  of 
1862.  At  Franklin  the  regiment  under  Colonel  Smith, 
inspired  by  his  gallant  and  dashing  leadership,  rendered 
perhaps  its  most  distinguished  service.  So  efficient  and 
valuable  were  these  services  that  after  it  reached  Nash- 
ville in  December,  General  George  H.  Thomas,  accom- 
panied by  Generals  Wood  and  Wagner,  visited  the  regi- 
ment and  publicly  thanked  it,  saying  that  with  the  excep- 
tion only  of  Colonel  Opdycke,  commanding  the  brigade, 
with  whom  he  shared  the  honor,  "  to  the  special  gallantry 
and  exertions  of  Colonel  Smith,  more  than  to  those  of 
any  other  man,  was  due  the  repulse  of  the  rebel  column, 
the  safety  of  the  army,  and  the  victory  of  the  day.  "  Such 
words  as  these  from  the  reserved  and  revered  commander 
of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  are  enough  to  crown 
with  honor  and  glory  the  name  and  career  of  any  soldier, 
however  capable  and  gallant. 

After  his  return  to  Chicago  at  the  close  of  the  War  of 
the  Rebellion,  General  Smith  at  once  devoted  himself 
with  his  accustomed  energy  and  diligence  to  the  practice 


386  MEMORIALS. 

of  his  profession,  and  continued  this  practice  until  the 
day  before  his  death,  except  that  during  the  years  1867 
and  1868,  he  resided  in  Springfield,  the  capital  of  the 
State,  as  State  Treasurer,  to  which  office  his  fellow  citi- 
zens had  elected  him. 

As  a  lawyer,  General  Smith  stood  in  the  first  rank 
of  his  profession  in  Illinois,  and  was  regarded  by  his  fel- 
low members  of  the  bar  as  an  eminently  trustworthy 
counselor  and  a  skillful,  able  and  powerful  advocate. 
The  public  interest  was  deeply  involved  in  many  impor- 
tant cases  in  which  he  was  engaged,  and  his  name  ap- 
pears frequently  in  the  reports  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Illinois  and  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 

Perhaps  the  chief  characteristic  for  which  he  was  dis- 
tinguished was  the  sound  common  sense  which  he  always 
brought  to  bear  upon  the  circumstances  of  any  case  he 
was  engaged  in,  and  the  fairness  with  which  he  was  ever 
ready  to  see  and  admit  the  rights  of  his  opponents,  who 
always  knew  that  they  need  fear  no  trickery  from  him, 
but  that  they  could  fully  depend  upon  his  word.  This  is 
not  the  place  nor  the  occasion  for  a  full  consideration  of 
our  late  Companion  as  a  lawyer,  but  we  can  all  take  pride 
in  the  fact  that  he  left  a  legal  record  which  was  as  fair 
and  stainless  as  his  record  as  a  soldier  was  gallant  and 
honorable. 

As  a  public-spirited  and  useful  citizen  he  stood  among 
the  best  known  men  of  this  great  city.  He  was  always 
interested  in  all  things  that  concerned  the  best  interests 
of  the  City,  the  State,  or  the  Nation,  and  always  glad  to 
do  his  share  to  promote  these  interests.  So  well  known 
were  his  public  spirit  and  his  efficiency  that  he  was  con- 
stantly called  upon  to  be  a  leader  and  to  fill  positions  of 
honor  and  trust  in  the  various  organizations  with  which 
he  was  connected.  Thus  he  was  not  only  elected  Treas- 


MEMORIALS.  387 

urer  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  but  he  became  at  various 
times  President  of  the  Union  League  Club  and  President 
of  the  Chicago  Literary  Club,  and  was  for  many  years 
Vice-President  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society. 

Being  above  the  pliancy  and  obsequiousness  of  the 
self-seeking  politician,  he  was  notably  independent  in 
thought  and  action;  and  in  religious  as  well  as  in  political 
matters  he  fearlessly  stood  by  what  he  believed  to  be 
right,  regardless  of  consequences.  Although  but  a  recent 
convert  to  the  Roman  Catholic  faith,  he  was  already 
considered  a  leading  and  influential  member  of  that 
church  throughout  the  Archdiocese  of  Chicago. 

It  may  be  said  that  he  had  no  enemies.  He  carefully 
observed  all  the  courtesies  and  amenities  of  life.  He  had 
a  most  equable  temperament  and  cherished  no  malice. 
A  delightful  conversationalist,  he  was  a  charming  Com- 
panion, and  his  home  was  always  most  attractive  to  his 
Companions  and  friends.  His  courtesy  was  not  an  out- 
ward veneer,  but  an  inward  grace;  it  sprang  from  a  good 
and  honest  heart. 

General  Smith  in  his  social  and  family  life  was  a  most 
estimable  man,  his  devotion  to  his  wife  and  his  children 
being  extreme.  He  was  high-minded,  true  and  ever  to 
be  depended  upon  in  all  his  private  as  well  as  in  his 
public  or  professional  engagements.  In  short,  General 
Smith  was  morally,  intellectually  and  socially  a  remark- 
able and  superior  man.  In  .him,  it  is  not  too  much  to 
say,  there  was 

"A  combination  and  a  form,  indeed, 
Where  every  god  did  seem  to  set  his  seal 
To  give  the  world  assurance  of  a  man." 

ALEXANDER  C.   McCLURG, 
MARTIN  D.   HARDIN, 
WILLIAM  ELIOT  FURNESS, 

Committee. 


JAMES  LAMBERT  HIGH. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Forty-ninth  Wisconsin  Infantry, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 

October  j,  1898. 

IN  the  death  of  James  L.  High,  this  Commandery  has 
lost  a  distinguished  and  honored  member;  one  who 
had  become  endeared  to  it  by  many  ties  of  associa- 
tion and  friendship. 

He  was  born  in  Richmond  County,  Ohio,  on  the  6th 
day  of  October,  1844.  His  family  moved  to  Black  Earth 
in  Wisconsin  when  he  was  ten  years  old,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  live  until  1860,  when  he  entered  the  University 
of  Wisconsin. 

Mr.  High  was  quietly  pursuing  his  studies  at  this  place 
when  the  Civil  War  began  in  1861,  and  although  only 

388 


MEMORIALS.  389 

sixteen  years  of  age,  he  was  among  the  first  to  volunteer 
in  one  of  the  earlier  regiments  organized  in  Wisconsin. 
His  extreme  youth  and  delicate  health  induced  his  father 
to  insist  at  that  time  on  his  discharge  as  a  minor,  to  which 
he  reluctantly  assented,  upon  the  understanding  that  as 
soon  as  his  college  course  should  be  completed  he  should 
be  free  again  to  offer  his  services  to  his  country.  This  was 
accomplished  in  the  spring  of  1864,  and  on  the  I3th  of 
May  in  that  year,  Mr.  High  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier  in 
the  Fortieth  Wisconsin  Infantry,  one  of  the  hundred  days 
regiments,  where  he  served  in  the  District  of  West  Ten- 
nessee until  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  enlistment. 

Very  shortly  after  his  return  home,  he  joined  the 
Forty-ninth  Wisconsin,  of  which  Companion  Bishop 
Fallows  was  Colonel,  where  he  was  commissioned  First 
Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  on  the  i6th  of  February,  1865. 
He  served  in  this  regiment  in  the  District  of  Missouri, 
and  as  Post  Adjutant  at  St.  Louis;  as  Acting  Assistant 
Adjutant  General  of  the  First  District  of  Missouri,  and 
on  General  Court  Martial  until  November  i,  1865,  when 
he  was  mustered  out  with  his  regiment,  whose  services 
were  no  longer  required. 

The  facts  with  regard  to  his  services  in  the  War  of 
the  Rebellion,  are  mainly  taken  from  his  own  modest 
statement  of  them  in  his  application  for  membership  in 
this  Order.  The  date  at  which  he  was  permitted  finally 
to  enter  the  service  was  too  late  to  enable  him  to  share 
in  the  great  battles  and  campaigns  of  the  war,  but  his 
military  service  was  marked  by  a  faithful  and  intelligent 
discharge  of  every  duty  which  was  assigned  to  him. 

It  was  a  source  of  profound  regret  to  Mr.  High  that 
his  strong  wish  to  share  more  fully  in  the  hardships  and 
glory  of  the  Civil  War  could  not  be  realized;  he  has 
alluded  to  it  as  the  great  disappointment  of  his  life. 


39O  MEMORIALS. 

As  soon  as  he  was  discharged  from  the  service,  Mr. 
High  joined  the  Law  Department  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  where  he  remained  until  the  summer  of  1866, 
when  he  came  to  Chicago  and  at  once  entered  upon  his 
chosen  profession,  of  which  he  was  soon  to  become  one 
of  the  leading  members.  From  that  date  he  continued 
to  be  a  resident  of  this  city,  except  for  a  short  period, 
when  he  was  compelled,  by  ill  health,  to  visit  Utah  and 
Colorado.  During  this  period  Mr.  High  traveled  exten- 
sively over  the  mountains  of  our  then  unsettled  Western 
frontier,  and  explored  the  wonders  of  the  Yellowstone, 
long  before  the  great  National  Park  was  established. 

He  returned  to  Chicago  with  restored  health,  when 
he  again  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  profession,  which 
he  followed  during  the  remainder  of  his  life  with  a  zeal 
and  energy  that  knew  neither  change  nor  shadow  of 
turning,  and  in  which  he  achieved  such  success  as  few 
men  ever  attain. 

During  the  early  period  of  his  professional  career,  Mr. 
High  gave  much  of  his  time  to  literature.  In  1870  he 
edited  and  published  an  edition  of  the  works  of  Lord 
Erskine,  and  in  1873  he  finally  completed  and  published 
his  great  work  on  "Injunctions,"  which  immediately  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  text-books  on  that  subject.  In 
1 874he  published  a  work  on  '  'Receivers, "  and,  a  year  later, 
one  on  "Extraordinary  Remedies."  His  books  on  Injunc- 
tions and  Receivers  have  gone  through  several  editions, 
and  are  still  increasing  in  usefulness  and  demand. 

By  the  publication  of  these  works,  Mr.  High's  fame 
as  a  law  writer  became  firmly  established  on  both  sides 
of  the  Atlantic.  They  are  to-day  cited  in  the  courts  of 
England  as  well  as  in  those  of  our  own  country,  in  terms 
of  highest  commendation  and  approval  and  are  standard 
authorities  wherever  the  English  law  prevails. 


MEMORIALS.  39 1 

The  career  of  Mr.  High  at  the  bar  was  an  unbroken 
record  of  success  and  honor.  He  was  a  profound  scholar 
and  an  eloquent  speaker.  During  these  busy  years  of 
professional  life  he  was  engaged  in  many  important  cases 
in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  and  of  this 
State,  where  his  presence  had  become  familiar  to  bench 
and  bar.  Unlike  many  of  the  profession,  he  never  allowed 
public  office  or  political  position  to  lead  him  away  from 
its  active  duties.  Twice  he  was  offered  a  position  as 
Judge  of  the  United  States  Court,  but  he  declined  to 
accept. 

Of  his  achievements  and  career  at  the  bar,  however, 
this  is  not  the  place  to  speak.  We  knew  him  better  as 
a  friend,  a  Companion  of  this  Order,  in  which  he  took  a 
deep  interest.  We  have  seen  him,  not  infrequently, 
taking  part  in  its  proceedings,  and  often  clearing  up 
questions  of  doubt  and  controversy  by  a  clear,  simple 
statement  of  the  real  matter  at  issue.  He  will  be  best 
remembered  for  the  fearless  discharge  of  every  duty 
which  came  to  him  during  his  whole  career.  This  was 
the  standard  by  which  his  conduct  was  measured  during 
his  whole  life,  and  he  stood  ready  at  all  times  to  do  the 
right  as  it  was  given  him  to  see  the  right,  without  fear 
or  favor  or  regard  to  results.  While  strangers  might  pos- 
sibly regard  him  as  reserved  in  manner,  to  those  who 
knew  him  well  he  was  as  gentle  and  loving  as  a  woman. 

He  bore  the  pain  and  suffering  of  his  final  illness  with 
a  gentle  patience  that  was  characteristic.  Some  of  the 
incidents  of  this  brief  period  were  exceedingly  touching 
and  pathetic. 

His  only  son,  a  member  of  this  Order,  promptly  en- 
listed as  a  private  in  the  First  Illinois  Regiment  at  the 
commencement  of  the  late  war,  and  shared  all  its  dangers 
and  privations.  When  the  reports  began  to  come  back 


392  MEMORIALS. 

from  the  trenches  and  camps  at  Santiago,  of  the  sickness 
and  hardship  incident  to  a  campaign  in  that  climate, 
pride  in  the  soldierly  career  of  the  son  was  accompanied 
by  the  most  intense  anxiety  for  his  safety.  Of  his  visit 
to  the  camps  at  Montauk,  the  search  for  the  sick  son 
through  the  army  hospitals,  the  tender  meeting  between 
them  and  their  return  home  shortly  before  Mr.  High's 
death,  we  cannot  now  speak.  With  an  assured  position 
at  the  bar  and  in  the  community,  his  family  again  united, 
fame  and  fortune  already  achieved,  it  would  seem  as  if 
his  career  was  rounded  and  complete.  The  past  at  least 
was  secure,  and  the  future  seemed  full  of  promise. 

With  all  his  great  achievements,  he  was  modest  and 
retiring.  When  invited  to  join  this  Commandery  he  at 
first  declined,  for  the  sole  reason  that  his  own  military 
service  had  been  of  so  brief  and  unimportant  a  character 
that  he  did  not  feel  entitled  to  membership  in  an  organ- 
ization of  which  Sheridan  was  Commander,  and  many  of 
the  members  of  which  had  borne  a  conspicuous  part  in 
that  mighty  conflict  in  which  this  country  was  engaged 
for  four  years. 

We  get  a  pleasant  side  glimpse  of  his  character  in  his 
fondness  for  outdoor  life  and  manly  sports.  He  was  a 
devoted  disciple  of  Izaak  Walton,  and  every  year  he  was 
accustomed  to  spend  one  month  at  the  Salmon  Pools  of 
Lower  Canada.  In  a  letter  to  a  friend  in  July,  1896,  he 
writes  that  he  was  "alone  with  a  guide,  twenty  miles 
from  a  postomce,  in  the  heart  of  the  forests  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  as  happy  as  a  tired  lawyer  could  hope  to 
be  in  this  hard-working  world." 

Into  his  beautiful  home  life,  with  all  its  tender  asso- 
ciations, we  cannot  enter.  The  wife  of  his  youth,  the 
soldier  son  and  the  devoted  daughter,  are  left  to  mourn 
with  us  his  early  death. 


MEMORIALS.  393 

Nothing  perhaps,  can  be  said  of  him  more  appropriate 
than  his  own  language  on  the  occasion  of  the  death  of  a 
professional  associate: 

"Behind  him  was  the  record  of  a  pure  and  manly 
life.  He  had  fought  a  good  fight.  He  had  wronged  no 
man.  He  had  nobly  discharged  every  duty  imposed  by 
his  calling.  He  had  been  loyal  to  every  tie  which  bound 
him  to  fame  and  friends.  Well  might  he  approach  the 
solemn  mystery  which  veils  the  future,  with  the  assurance 
that  for  him  all  was  well." 

In  the  closing  paragraph  of  a  tribute  to  General 
William  E.  Strong,  Mr.  High  said  of  him. 

"  His  tender  memory  shall  rest  in  the  faithful  keep- 
ing of  his  associates  of  this  Commandery  who  knew  him 
best  and  loved  him  most,  until  we,  in  turn,  shall  have 
joined  the  great  majority,  and  his  well  earned  fame  shall 
remain  a  part  of  the  heritage  to  be  transmitted  to  those 
who  shall  perpetuate  our  Order  through  coming  time." 

We  can  add  nothing  to  this  tribute  to  a  deceased 
Companion.  What  he  said  of  General  Strong  can  all 
truthfully  be  said  of  him. 

"A  life  in  civic  action  warm, 

A  soul  on  highest  mission  sent, 

A  potent  voice  of  parliament, 
A  pillar  steadfast  in  the  storm." 

EPHRAIM  A.  OTIS, 

HUNTINGTON    W.    JACKSON, 

HENRY  V.   FREEMAN, 

.  Committee. 


SAMUEL  FRANKLIN  FARRAR. 

Died  at  Santa  Barbara,   California,    October  j,   i8g8 

Only  brother  of   Brevet   Lieutenant  Colonel  Henry 
Weld  Farrar,  who  died  at  Chicago,  April  17,  1881. 


394 


BENJAMIN  WINSLOW  UNDERWOOD. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Seventy- second  Illinois  Infantry, 

United  States   Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,   Illinois, 

October  26,  i8g8. 

e^PANION  Benjamin  Winslow  Underwood  was  born 
July  7,  1841,  at  Harwich,  Massachusetts.  He  came 
West  in  1856,  going  to  Burlington,  Iowa,  where  he  spent 
less  than  a  year.  From  there  he  came  to  Chicago, 
where  he  lived  ever  after,  with  the  exception  of  about 
five  years — 1889  to  1894— spent  in  Hutchinson,  Kansas. 
He  was  married  to  Frances  A.  Parsons,  April  14, 
1864.  His  business  life  has  been  mainly  connected  with 
the  commission  business  on  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade. 
At  the  time  of  the  Civil  War  he  was  a  partner  in  the 
commission  house  of  Underwood  &  Co.,  comprising  P. 

395 


3-96  MEMORIALS. 

L.  Underwood,  S.  L.  Underwood  and  B.  W.  Under- 
wood. That  firm  paid  the  expenses  of  recruiting  Com- 
pany D  in  the  Seventy-second  Illinois  Infantry,  with 
which  company  he  took  the  field  as  First  Lieutenant. 
Subsequently  he  became  Adjutant  of  the  regiment. 

During  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  he  acted  as  Secre- 
tary of  the  Omaha  Packing  Company,  and  was  one  of  its 
principal  representatives  on  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade. 
He  died  at  Chicago  on  the  26th  day  of  October,  1898, 
leaving  behind  him  a  wife  and  two  grown  children — a 
son  and  a  daughter. 

For  a  few  years  subsequent  to  the  Civil  War  he  was 
a  partner  in  the  iron  house  of  Hall  Kimbark  &  Co.  His 
five  years  in  Hutchinson,  Kansas,  were  spent  in  building 
and  operating  a  packing  house  in  the  interests  of  the 
Omaha  Packing  Company. 

Companion  Underwood  was  one  of  the  truest,  man- 
liest business  men  that  ever  breathed  the  breath  of  life. 
His  domestic  existence  was  ideal.  No  stronger  words  of 
tongue  or  pen  can  be  said  of  any  man.  His  memory 
will  be  revered  by  his  family  and  friends  and  ourselves, 
his  Companions. 

JOSEPH  STOCKTON, 
LEWIS  B.  MITCHELL, 
JOHN  T.   McAuLEY, 

Committee. 


HENRY  JAMES  NOWLAN. 

Major  Seventh  Cavalry,    United  States  Army.     Died  at  Hot  Springs, 
Arkansas,  November  10,  1898 


service  as  First  Lieutenant  Fourteenth 
New  York  Cavalry,  United  States  Volunteers, 
January  17,  1863;  Captain,  October  24,  1864; 
transferred  to  Eighteenth  New  York  Cavalry,  United 
States  Volunteers,  October  24,  1864;  mustered  out  May 
31,  1866;  Second  Lieutenant  Seventh  Cavalry,  United 
States  Army,  July  28,  1866;  First  Lieutenant,  February 
i,  1868;  Captain,  December  9,  1876;  Brevet  Major 
United  States  Army,  "for  gallant  services  in  action 
against  Indians  at  Canyon  Creek,  Montana,  September 
!3.  I877,"  February  27,  1890;  Major  Seventh  Cavalry, 
United  States  Army,  April  7,  1893.  War  service  in  the 
Department  of  the  Gulf. 

397 


JOHN  CRAWFORD  WALKER. 

First  Lieutenant  Sixty-third  United  States  Colored    Troops.     Died 
at   Chicago,  Illinois,  December  12,  i8q8. 

'TTiNOTHER  member  of  our  Order  has  been  mustered 
f\      out  of  service. 

"  How  sleep  the  brave,  who  sink  to  rest 
By  all  their  country's  wishes  blest." 

Lieutenant  and  Brevet  Captain  John  Crawford 
Walker  died  at  Chicago,  December  12,  1898. 

John  Crawford  Walker  was  born  in  Highland  County, 
Ohio,  the  I4th  day  of  February,  1839.  His  parents, 
John  Howell  and  Margaret  Bay  Walker,  were  both  born 
in  Rockbridge  County,  Virginia,  and  moved  to  Ohio 
about  the  year  1814. 

Captain  Walker  was  one  of  a  family  of  thirteen,  hav- 

398 


MEMORIALS.  399 

ing  had  six  brothers  and  six  sisters;   he  had  the  unusual 
record  of  having  four  brothers  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 

Our  deceased  Comrade  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  had 
the  advantage  of  only  a  common  school  education,  such 
as  was  to  be  obtained  in  the  country  districts  of  Ohio 
during  the  middle  of  the  present  century. 

He  was  of  a  happy  and  hopeful  disposition,  industrious 
and  cheerful,  and  his  obliging  nature  made  him  very 
popular  and  attached  to  him  many  warm  friends;  neutral- 
ity was  never  a  faculty  in  the  mental  equations  of  our 
deceased  brother. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-two,  he  enlisted  on  the  26th  of 
July,  1 86 1.  The  company  into  which  he  entered  be- 
came Company  H,  Twenty-seventh  Ohio  Volunteer  In- 
fantry. This  regiment  was  organized  at  Camp  Chase, 
near  Columbus,  Ohio,  in  August,  1861,  was  immediately 
ordered  to  Missouri,  and  entered  at  once  into  active 
service.  Our  Comrade  was  identified  with  this  famous 
regiment  until  the  fall  of  1863.  He  participated  in  the 
battles  of  New  Madrid  and  Island  Number  Ten,  under 
General  Pope,  was  in  General  Thomas's  Division  in  the 
siege  of  Corinth  in  the  spring  of  1862,  and  participated 
in  the  battles  of  luka  and  Corinth  in  the  fall  of  the  same 
year,  under  General  Rosecrans.  He  was  with  his  regi- 
ment in  the  winter  of  1862,  in  General  Grant's  attempt 
to  capture  Vicksburg  by  way  of  Jackson,  Mississippi. 
On  this  campaign,  when  separated  from  all  hospital 
accommodations,  he  suffered  a  severe  attack  of  typhoid 
fever  and  was  subjected  to  much  suffering  and  many 
hardships,  having  been  moved  in  an  ambulance  more 
than  twelve  miles  the  day  after  he  had  passed  through 
the  crisis.  When  the  brigade  to  which  his  regiment  be- 
longed— the  Ohio  Brigade — was  ordered  back  to  Jack- 
son, Tennessee,  to  repel  Generals  Forrest  and  Rody, 


4OO  MEMORIALS. 

he  was  still  lying  at  the  point  of  death,  and  when  our 
line  was  cut  at  Holly  Springs  by  General  Van  Dorn,  our 
Comrade  was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Corinth. 

Our  brother  never  recovered  from  the  hardships  of 
this  campaign  and  was  sent  home  on  sick  leave,  but  re- 
turned to  his  regiment  determined  to  sacrifice  his  life,  if 
need  be,  for  his  country. 

October  2,  1863,  he  was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant 
Ninth  Louisiana  Infantry,  and,  September  26,  1864,  was 
commissioned  First  Lieutenant,  Company  G,  Sixty- 
third  United  States  Colored  Infantry,  at  which  time  he 
was  detached  from  his  regiment  and  appointed  Assistant 
Superintendent  of  Freedmen,  District  of  Memphis, 
Tennessee. 

Later,  Lieutenant  Walker  was  appointed  Superin- 
tendent of  President's  Island,  and  April  24,  1865,  was 
commissioned  Captain  of  the  Sixty-third  United  States 
Colored  Infantry.  October  4,  1865,  he  was  discharged 
on  account  of  physical  disability,  not  having  been 
mustered  as  Captain. 

In  every  position  he  was  called  to  fill  he  was  efficient, 
faithful  and  capable,  enjoying  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  his  superior  officers. 

Captain  Walker  made  an  army  record  that  any  man 
might  be  proud  of.  But,  after  an  army  service  of  more 
than  four  years,  when  peace  was  declared  he  became 
reticent  and  would  not  talk  upon  the  subject  of  his  own 
personal  experiences,  saying:  "  The  thoughts  of  war  fill 
me  with  horror;  let  us  build  up  the  reunited  country  and 
make  it  great,  but  let  us  never  forget  that  we  were 
eternally  right." 

In  1866  Captain  Walker  came  to  Illinois,  locating 
in  Tuscola,  where  he  was  married,  May  7,  1867,  to  Miss 
Kate  Ammen,  who  survives  him.  Two  children  were 


MEMORIALS.  4OI 

born  of  that  marriage,  the  younger  of  whom,  Charles 
R.,  preceded  his  father  to  the  Spirit  Land;  the  older 
son  Jo.  M.  Walker,  is  a  successful  lawyer,  residing  at 
Tuscola,  Illinois,  and  with  him  the  widow  of  our  dear 
brother  makes  her  home.  To  them  we  extend  our 
sympathy,  when  those  we  love  have  come  and  gone. 

After  coming  to  Illinois,  Captain  Walker  engaged  in 
secular  pursuits  and  few  men  have  passed  through  more 
diversified  experiences  than  he,  not  all  of  them  being 
satisfactory;  yet  he  had  what  forms  the  basis  of  all  great 
characters — energy;  and  by  his  indomitable  persever- 
ance succeeded  in  laying  by  a  competency,  notwith- 
standing the  vicissitudes  of  army  life  had  laid  the  founda- 
tion for  years  of  suffering,  and  finally  caused  his  death. 

Before  disease  had  undermined  his  system,  Captain 
Walker  was  a  man  of  good  physique  and  strong  individu- 
ality; he  was  a  great  reader,  a  student  of  past  events, 
thoroughly  posted  on  current  literature,  and  had  the 
faculty  of  expressing  himself  with  clearness  and  firmness. 
The  history  of  our  political  parties  was  as  familiar  to 
him  as  was  the  Pentateuch  to  the  ancient  Hebrew.  At 
the  period  of  his  greatest  activity  he  appeared  to  be  ac- 
quainted with  nearly  all  the  prominent  politicians  of  the 
country,  especially  with  those  of  Illinois;  was  related  to- 
many  of  them  either  by  consanguinity  or  marriage,  and 
also  to  men  of  distinction  in  the  army  and  navy. 

Socially  our  brother  was  a  fine  conversationalist;  he 
welcomed  his  friends  to  his  pleasant  home  in  that  courtly 
manner  characteristic  of  the  affable  gentleman.  He 
loved  his  friends  and  loved  to  love  them,  and  would  de- 
fend them  from  aspersions  from  any  and  all  sources. 

He  was  fortunate  in  having  a  kind,  noble  and 
patriotic  wife,  to  whom  he  was  greatly  attached;  a  wife 
who,  when  the  sunshine  of  prosperity  shone  brightly 


4O2  MEMORIALS. 

along  their  pathway,  was  his  companion  and  counsellor, 
and  when  affliction  came,  imposed  upon  herself  the 
arduous  task  of  nurse,  and  whether  at  the  vesper  or 
matin  or  in  the  silent  vigil  of  the  midnight  hour,  the 
faithful  watcher  was  at  her  post,  deeming  the  trust 
too  sacred  to  delegate  to  another,  notwithstanding  hosts 
of  friends  stood  ready  to  render  all  possible  assistance. 

Our  brother  was  a  firm  believer  in  revealed  religion; 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  and,  while  in  his 
younger  days  inclined  to  be  a  fatalist,  yet  for  many  years 
he  had  been  in  full  sympathy  with  the  grand  truth  that 
whosoever  feareth  God  and  worketh  righteousness  is  ac- 
cepted of  Him. 

The  last  roll  call  on  this  side  the  River  of  Life  has 
been  answered,  and  we,  the  surviving  Comrades  say, 
"Farewell,  brave  soldier,  comrade,  friend,  until  we 
greet  you  in  the  Elysian  Fields.  For  this  mortal  must 
put  on  immortality." 

JAMES  L.   REAT, 
FRANCIS  M.  WRIGHT, 
JACOB  W.    WILKIN, 

Committee. 


CHARLES   W.   DAVIS. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Fifty-first  Illinois  Infantry,   United  States  Volun- 
teers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  December  75,  i8g8. 


HARLES  WILDER  DAVIS,  late  Commander  of  the 
Illinois  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States,  was  born  at  Concord, 
Massachusetts,  on  the  nth  day  of  October,  1833.  He 
died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  on  the  I5th  day  of  December, 
1898. 

If  it  were  all  of  life>  merely  to  live,  thus  briefly  could 
be  told  the  story  of  every  human  life.  But  those  of  us 
who,  during  all  the  years  of  our  association  in  this  Com- 
mandery, have  had  the  pleasure  and  the  privilege  of  in- 
timate acquaintance  with  our  late  Commander,  know 
that  the  story  of  his  life  cannot  be  thus  briefly  told. 

403 


404  MEMORIALS. 

His  ancestors  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of 
Massachusetts.  They  had  lived  in  what  became  the  his- 
toric town  of  Concord,  Massachusetts,  for  nearly  a  cen- 
tury before  his  birth.  It  is  not  strange,  growing  up  to- 
manhood  amid  the  traditions  of  the  neighborhood,  so  in- 
separably identified  with  the  history  of  the  American 
Revolution,  that  both  the  patriotic  and  the  military 
spirit  should  have  been  strongly  cultivated  in  Companion 
Davis  during  all  his  earlier  years.  Familiar  association 
with  Lexington  and  Concord  Bridge  was  an  admirable 
school  of  preparation  for  the  service  which  the  country 
was  so  soon  to  demand  in  the  eventful  years  of  the  com- 
ing Civil  War. 

When  eighteen  years  of  age,  Companion  Davis  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Concord  Company  of  the  Fifth 
Regiment  of  Massachusetts  Militia.  Here  he  took  his 
first -^lessons  in  the  school  of  the  soldier.  He  attained 
the  rank  of  Corporal  and  took  an  active  interest  in  the 
drills,  musters  and  parades  of  the  company,  and  those 
of  the  regiment  to  which  it  belonged.  He  himself  has 
left  a  brief  record  of  his  recollections  of  an  interesting 
special  service  which  the  company  was  called  upon  to 
perform,  and  by  which  he  was  greatly  impressed.  This 
was  when,  in  March,  1854,  the  Division  to  which  his 
regiment  was  attached  was  ordered  by  the  Governor  of 
the  State  to  Lexington,  to  perform  escort  duty  at  the 
funeral  of  Private  Jonathan  Harrington,  the  last  survivor 
of  the  company  of  minute-men  who  faced  the  British 
regulars  at  Lexington  on  the  eventful  morning  of  April 
!9.  r775-  "The  Acton  and  Concord  Companies,"  to 
quote  Colonel  Davis'  own  narrative  of  the  occasion, 
"were  especially  designated  in  orders  as  a  bodyguard, 
and,  in  performing  this  duty,  marched  near  the  hearse 
to  the  slow  music  of  the  'Dead  March  from  Saul,'  and 


MEMORIALS.  405 

•entered  the  old  graveyard  back  of  the  church.  At  the 
grave,  and  after  the  body  had  been  lowered,  we  fired 
three  volleys,  and,  'left  in  front,'  marched  out  of  and 
away  from  the  graveyard,  to  the  quickstep  of  '  Yankee 
Doodle.' ' 

Another  incident  of  Colonel  Davis's  youth  is  of  inter- 
est, as  showing  the  patriotic  ardor  which  he  seems  to 
have  breathed  in  with  the  atmosphere  of  his  birthplace. 
It  had  been  the  habit  in  Concord  to  celebrate  the  I9th 
of  April — that  day  when — 

"  By  the  rude  bridge  that  arched  the  flood, 
Their  flag  to  April's  breeze  unfurled, 
*      *       once  the  embattled  farmers  stood, 
And  fired  the  shot  heard  'round  the  world," 

by  firing  a  national  salute  at  sunrise,  repeating  the  same 
at  noon  and  again  at  sunset,  and  flinging  the  national 
flag  to  the  breeze  from  the  top  of  the  liberty-pole  in  the 
center  of  the  town.  On  one  of  these  anniversaries,  when 
young  Davis  was  about  seventeen  years  of  age,  for  some 
reason  the  customary  morning  salute  had  been  omitted, 
and  no  preparation  had  been  made  for  the  further  ob- 
servance of  the  day.  "Some  one  had  blundered,"  he 
says.  Young  Davis  was  not  willing  that  the  day  should 
pass  unhonored.  He  immediately  undertook  to  raise 
money  among  his  father's  friends,  bought  the  necessary 
powder,  enlisted  his  mother  and  some  of  her  friends  in 
the  work  of  making  a  hundred  flannel  cartridge-bags, 
had  the  two  brass  six-pounders  dragged  to  the  top  of 
Garrison  Hill,  and  at  noon  the  guns  thundered  forth  their 
salutation  to  the  day  and  to  the  memory  of  the  "embat- 
tled farmers"  who  struck  the  first  blow  for  American 
liberty  and  independence.  Davis  himself  fired  the  pieces, 
using  a  slow  match  on  the  end  of  a  match  stock  about 
four  feet  in  length.  "  Lanyards,"  he  says,  "were  not 
then  in  use,  or  at  least  those  guns  did  not  have  them; 


4O6  MEMORIALS. 

and  standing  by  the  side  of  the  piece,  I  had  to  reach  with 
the  slow  match  over  the  wheel  to  the  vent.  It  kept  me 
pretty  active,  going  from  piece  to  piece;  but  while  the 
effect  was  to  make  me  somewhat  deaf  for  the  time  being, 
I  yet  considered  it  quite  the  proudest  day  of  my  life." 

When,  on  the  I3th  of  April,  1861,  the  booming  guns 
fired  upon  Fort  Sumter  proclaimed  that  the  war  of  the 
great  Rebellion  had  actually  begun,  Companion  Davis 
was  residing  in  Chicago,  where  he  had  lived  for  the  six 
preceding  years,  connected  with  the  book  publishing  firm 
of  S.  C.  Griggs  &  Company. 

We,  the  boys  and  young  men  of  that  day  and  gener- 
ation, can  never  forget  the  thrill  of  indignation  which  the 
echoes  of  those  Confederate  guns  awoke  in  the  loyal 
heart  of  the  North.  Companies  were  formed  everywhere. 
Young  men  and  boys  began  to  learn  the  military  exer- 
cises which  were  to  fit  them  for  the  stern  conflict  of  the 
coming  years. 

Companion  Davis  at  once  made  up  his  mind  to  enter 
the  service.  He  knew  that  the  Concord  company  of 
militia,  of  which  he  had  been  a  member  before  coming 
to  Chicago,  had  been  among  the  first  to  go  to  the  front, 
and  was  then  somewhere  in  the  vicinity  of  Washington. 
He  wrote,  on  the  22d  of  May,  to  its  Captain,  offering  his 
services  and  asking  if  there  was  not  room  for  him  in  the 
company.  The  Captain  replied  that  while  he  would  be 
glad  to  have  him  join,  yet  as  the  term  of  enlistment  was 
only  three  months,  he  thought  Davis  would  hardly  be 
justified  in  going  a  thousand  miles  for  so  short  a  term  of 
service. 

Early  in  that  month,  however,  he  joined  a  company 
formed  here  in  Chicago,  composed  of  young  men,  mostly 
his  friends  and  acquaintances,  under  the  leadership  of 
Luther  P.  Bradley,  now  General  Bradley,  United  States 


MEMORIALS.  407 

Army,  retired.  The  company  was  tendered  to  the  Gov- 
ernor, but  as  the  quota  of  the  State  was  full,  could  not 
be  accepted.  It  kept  up  its  organization,  nevertheless, 
for  several  months,  as  its  members  were  quite  sure  that 
before  long  they  would  be  needed. 

Companion  Davis's  military  experience  in  the  Concord 
Company  now  stood  him  in  good  stead.  He  became  one 
of  the  company  drill-masters,  and  his  zeal  and  efficiency 
in  this  service  attracted  attention  and  led  ultimately  to 
his  connection  with  the  Fifty-first  Regiment  of  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry. 

The  Company  under  Captain  Bradley,  familiarly 
known  as  Company  D  among  its  members,  was  not  ac- 
cepted and  did  not  enter  the  service  as  an  organization. 
Most  of  its  members,  however,  afterwards  found  service 
in  other  organizations,  over  eighty  of  them  as  commis- 
sioned officers,  and  won  honorable  records.  Some  of 
them  rose  to  distinction  in  the  following  years  of  war. 
One  service  which  the  company  performed  was  that  of 
escort  duty  at  the  funeral  of  Senator  Stephen  A.  Douglas, 
June  7,  1861. 

Meanwhile,  Companion  Davis  was  looking  for  an  op- 
portunity to  enter  some  organization  destined  to  active 
service,  and  had  about  made  up  his  mind  to  sign  the 
muster  roll  of  what  was  known  as  the  Normal  Regiment, 
afterward  the  Thirty-third  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry, 
under  command  of  Colonel  Charles  E.  Hovey.  Just  at 
this  time,  through  his  friend  Bradley,  came  the  proposi- 
tion from  Colonel  George  W.  Gumming,  who  had  seen 
him  acting  as  drill  sergeant,  offering  him  the  adjutancy 
of  the  regiment  which  he— Gumming — had  received  au- 
thority to  raise,  and  of  which  Luther  P.  Bradley  was  to 
be  Lieutenant  Colonel. 

The  organization  of  this  regiment,  which  became  the 


408  MEMORIALS. 

Fifty-first  Illinois,  was  completed  at  Camp  Douglas, 
where  it  remained  from  September,  1861,  until  the  I4th 
day  of  February,  1862,  when  it  boarded  the  cars  of  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad  and  started  for  Cairo,  to  begin 
actual  service  in  the  field.  It  was  soon  after  attached 
to  the  Second  Brigade,  Fourth  Division,  Army  of  the 
Mississippi,  and  took  part  in  the  investment  and  siege  of 
Island  Number  Ten,  and  subsequently  in  the  advance 
upon,  and  siege  of  Corinth. 

Some  two  months  after  the  fall  of  Corinth,  the  divi- 
sion marched  to  Nashville,  and  there  remained  doing 
garrison  duty  during  the  period  known  as  the  Siege  of 
Nashville,  while  the  armies  of  Generals  Buell  and  Bragg 
were  endeavoring  to  get  ahead  of  each  other  in  a  race  to 
the  Ohio  River. 

September  3Oth,  1862,  Adjutant  Davis  was  elected 
by  his  brother  officers  and  commissioned  Major  of  the 
regiment.  This  promotion  over  officers  of  the  regiment, 
his  superiors  in  rank,  was  a  most  unusual  honor,  and  it- 
self bears  testimony  to  the  confidence  he  had  command- 
ed, to  his  efficiency  as  an  officer  and  character  as  a  man. 
In  the  re-arrangement  which  preceded  the  advance  of 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  upon  Murfreesboro,  the 
Fifty-first  Illinois  was  attached  to  the  Third  Division, 
which  constituted  a  part  of  the  right  wing,  under  com- 
mand of  General  Philip  Sheridan. 

At  the  battle  of  Stone's  River,  on  the  3ist  of  Decem- 
ber, 1862,  the  Division  of  General  Sheridan  bore  for  a 
time  the  brunt  of  the  Confederate  assault  upon  our  right, 
and  suffered  severe  loss.  Every  brigade  commander  in 
the  Division  was  killed,  and,  though  gradually  forced 
back  by  overwhelming  numbers,  it  maintained  its  organi- 
zation, retiring  in  good  order  and  inflicting  severe  loss 
upon  the  attacking  force. 


MEMORIALS.  4OQ 

During  the  fight  that  day  in  the  well-known  cedars, 
Major  Davis,  then  in  command  of  his  regiment,  was 
wounded  by  a  rebel  bullet  through  the  right  arm  while, 
sword  in  hand,  he  was  cheering  on  his  men.  Partially 
recovering  from  this  wound,  he  rejoined  his  regiment  at 
Murfreesboro  and  with  it  took  part  in  the  Tullahoma 
Campaign  and  the  advance  upon  Chattanooga. 

At  the  battle  of  Chickamauga,  in  September  follow- 
ing, during  the  conflict  of  Sheridan's  Division  with  Hood's 
command  of  Longstreet's  Corps,  his  horse  was  shot  under 
him.  October  6th,  1863,  Major  Davis  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel. 

In  that  famous  charge  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumber- 
land up  Mission  Ridge,  Colonel  Davis,  again  in  command 
of  his  regiment,  was  once  more  severely  wounded,  re- 
ceiving a  bullet  through  the  right  thigh  when  about  two- 
thirds  up  the  Ridge.  In  consequence  of  this  wound, 
which  was  serious  in  its  nature,  he  was  under  treatment, 
much  of  the  time  in  the  hospital,  for  about  eight  months. 
At  the  end  of  this  period,  being  still  unfit  for  active 
service,  he  was,  the  4th  of  October,  1864,  by  order  of 
the  War  Department,  assigned  to  light  duty  at  St.  Louis, 
upon  the  Staff  of  Major  General  Rosecrans.  The  /th  of 
December,  1864,  he  was  appointed  acting  Provost  Mar- 
shal General,  Department  of  Missouri,  from  which  ap- 
pointment he  was  relieved  at  his  own  request  and,  De- 
cember 26th  following,  was  appointed  Assistant  Provost 
Marshal  General.  April  29,  1865,  he  received  orders 
from  Major  General  G.  M.  Dodge  to  proceed  to  Northern 
Arkansas  in  order  to  propose  terms  of  surrender  to  the 
Confederate  General  Jeff  Thompson,  and,  on  the  nth 
of  May  following,  he  received  the  surrender  of  General 
Thompson  with  7,454  of  his  officers  and  men.  Upon 
that  day,  May  n,  1865,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Davis  was 


4IO  MEMORIALS. 

promoted  and  commissioned  Colonel,  but  his  regiment 
had  at  this  time  become  so  reduced  by  the  casualties  of 
war  that  he  could  not  then  be  mustered  with  that  rank. 

June  30,  1865,  the  war  being  over,  Colonel  Davis 
was  honorably  discharged  from  service  for  disability  on 
account  of  wounds  and  returned  to  Chicago,  again  to 
pick  up  the  thread  of  civil  duties  which  he  had  dropped 
at  the  call  to  arms. 

Thus  is  briefly  told  in  outline  the  story  of  Companion 
Davis's  very  honorable  military  career.  With  most  of  his 
career  since  the  war,  the  members  of  this  Commandery 
are  familiar.  May  16,  1885,  he  became  Recorder  of  the 
Commandery,  a  position  to  which  he  was  successively 
re-elected  annually,  until  May,  1896,  when  he  voluntarily 
retired  from  that  position. 

Of  his  services  to  the  Legion  in  his  capacity  as  Re- 
corder, we  cannot  speak  too  highly.  No  duty  was  ever 
neglected.  He  gave  generously  and  disinterestedly  of 
his  time  and  strength.  The  honor  of  the  Commandery 
and  of  each  of  its  members  was  always  near  and  dear  to 
his  heart.  With  native  magnanimity  he  at  one  time  de- 
clined a  nomination  for  Commander,  lest  it  should  bring 
him  into  conflict  with  another  whom  he  felt  to  be  then 
entitled  to  the  honor.  In  May,  1898,  the  Commandery 
did  honor  to  itself  by  electing  him  to  the  highest  place 
in  its  gift,  little  dreaming  that  he  was  so  soon  to  be 
called  away  from  earth,  before  the  expiration  of  his  term 
of  service  in  the  high  position  which  he  filled  so  grace- 
fully and  acceptably.  His  interest  in  the  Commandery 
continued  to  be  manifested  almost  to  his  latest  breath. 
When  himself  unable  to  write  he  dictated  letters  which 
were  written  by  his  devoted  wife,  upon  matters  relating 
to  its  interests. 

He  was  always  and  everywhere  the  genial,  efficient, 


MEMORIALS.  411 

modest  gentleman.  "None  knew  him  but  to  love  him, 
none  named  him  but  to  praise."  The  arm  shattered  by 
the  stroke  of  battle  was  never  raised  in  defense  of  what 
he  thought  was  wrong,  nor  in  opposition  to  what  he  be- 
lieved to  be  right.  In  a  notice  published  since  his  death 
it  was  said  of  him: 

"Sweetness,  gentleness  and  true  manliness  were 
never  more  beautifully  combined  in  one  man  than  in 
Charles  Wilder  Davis.  Underneath  the  button  of  the 
Loyal  Legion,  which  was  never  absent  from  his  breast, 
there  beat  a  heart  as  tender  as  a  woman's,  as  true  as 
truth,  and  as  brave  as  the  occasion.  There  was  not  a 
coarse  fiber  in  the  nature  or  physique  of  this  man  of 
delicate  mould  and  strong  will.  His  career  in  the  army 
and  since  has  been  a  striking  exemplification  of  the  sen- 
timent that  the  'bravest  are  the  tenderest,  the  loving  are 
the  daring.'  " 

Some  members  of  this  Commandery  there  are  who 
recall  that  when,  some  three  years  ago,  the  National 
Park  at  Chickamauga  was  dedicated,  Colonel  Davis  was 
one  of  several  who  took  advantage  of  the  occasion  to 
visit  scenes  which,  in  the  stress  and  storm  of  battle  years, 
had  become  to  us  holy  ground.  There,  on  the  slope  of 
Mission  Ridge,  he  found  the  place  where  his  participation 
in  the  charge  up  the  heights  had  been  stopped  by  a  Con- 
federate bullet;  and  there,  as  the  memories  of  those 
heroic  days  came  rushing  over  him  like  a  flood,  he  sat 
down  and  cried  like  a  child. 

We  cannot  be  unmindful  of  the  fact  that  time  is  thin- 
ning out  our  ranks,  almost  as  rapidly  now,  if  such  a  thing 
can  be  possible,  as  they  were  thinned  by  battle  bullets 
in  the  days  of  war.  Out  of  five  members  of  this  Com- 
mandery who,  only  three  short  years  ago,  returned  to- 
gether from  Chattanooga  on  that  occasion  in  the  same 


412  MEMORIALS. 

car,  three  of  the  number,  our  late  Companions  Ducat, 
High  and  Davis,  have  passed  over  to  the  majority. 

Into  the  sacred  privacy  of  the  family  circle  we  cannot 
enter.  Colonel  Davis  was  married  on  the  22d  day  of 
September,  1870,  to  Ernma  Frances,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  B.  Moore,  of  Concord,  Massachusetts,  who,  with 
their  son,  Bradley  Moore  Davis,  a  member  of  this  Com- 
mandery,  instructor  in  botany  in  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, now  survives  him.  To  them,  whose  loss  is  greater 
than  ours,  the  Commandery  can  only  express  its  deep 
and  heartfelt  sympathy. 

D  When,  at  the  close  of  that  December  Sabbath  day, 
we  stood  about  his  grave  as  the  sun  sank  in  the  western 
sky,  while  the  bugle  call  to  which  he  had  so  often  list- 
ened in  camp  and  field  in  the  stirring  days  of  war,  floated 
out  upon  the  still  evening  air,  its  dying  notes  closed  the 
last  service  of  earth  over  the  mortal  remains  of  one  of 
the  truest  of  men  and  the  knightliest  of  soldiers. 

"  The  heart  so  leal,  the  hand  of  steel 
Are  palsied  now  for  strife, 
But  the  noble  deed  and  the  patriot's  meed 
Are  left  of  the  hero's  life. 
The  bugle  call  and  the  battle  ball 
Again  shall  rouse  him  never; 
He  fought  and  fell,  he  served  us  well, 
His  furlough  lasts -forever." 

HENRY  V.  FREEMAN, 
GEORGE  K.  DAUCHY, 
AREA  N.  WATERMAN, 

Committee. 


JOHN  BROWN  HAMILTON. 

Died  at  Elgin,   Illinois,  December  24,   i8g8. 

JOHN  BROWN  HAMILTON  was  directly  descended 
from  the  Scottish  clan  whose  name  he  bore.  He 
was  born  December  I,  1847,  in  a  small  village  of 
Jersey  County,  Illinois,  where  his  father  officiated  as  a 
clergyman,  exercising  also  a  wide  influence  upon  the 
community  outside  of  the  village  by  his  teaching  as  an 
anti-slavery  agitator  and  by  his  exertions  in  behalf  of  the 
foundation  of  institutions  of  learning.  A  boyhood  molded 
by  such  a  parent  could  scarcely  fail  to  give  promise  of  a 
bright  future.  Here  was  acquired  that  fondness  for  books 
and  the  lore  of  letters  that  became  a  fine  part  of  the  ma- 
ture man.  Dr.  Hamilton,  at  all  times  of  his  life,  found 
his  most  delightful  recreation  in  seeking,  finding  and  ex- 

413 


41 4  MEMORIALS. 

ploring  a  quaint   volume  that  the  world  had  well-nigh 
forgotten. 

In  the  labor  of  the  fields,  of  the  printing  office,  and 
of  the  village  apothecary,  young  Hamilton  spent  his  wak- 
ing hours  until  his  seventeenth  year,  when  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War  he  entered  the  ranks  of  the  army 
of  the  Union  as  a  private  and  in  this  way  gained  an 
intimate  knowledge  of  the  duties,  needs,  and  responsi- 
bilities of  the  soldier,  which  became  invaluable  to  him 
in  after  life. 

Dr.  Hamilton  (insignia  6804)  entered  our  Order  as  a 
Companion  of  the  Second  Class  on  the  6th  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1889,  and  became  a  Companion  of  the  First  Class 
"in  succession"  on  November  n,  1894,  in  consequence 
of  the  decease,  on  that  date,  of  his  father,  Companion 
Chaplain  Benjamin  Brown  Hamilton,  late  U.  S.  V.,  at 
the  time  in  affiliation  with  the  Commandery  of  the  State 
of  Illinois. 

On  the  conclusion  of  the  war,  in  1867,  young  Ham- 
ilton entered  as  a  student  in  Rush  Medical  College,  and 
after  completing  the  curriculum  of  that  institution  was 
graduated  with  honor.  During  the  succeeding  four  years 
he  practiced  medicine  among  his  early  associates  in  his 
native  place. 

In  1874,  after  enduring  the  severe  ordeal  of  the  exam- 
inations for  the  regular  service,  Dr.  Hamilton  was  com- 
missioned an  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  United  States  Army 
and  during  his  term  of  service  had  experience  of-military 
life  from  one  seacoast  of  our  country  to  another.  As  a 
result  of  this  experience  he  began  to  interest  himself  in 
the  Marine  Hospital  Service  of  the  Treasury  Department 
which  was  then  poorly  organized  and  irregularly  equipped 
both  with  medical  men  and  material.  Dr.  Hamilton 
then  resigned  his  army  commission  and  after  a  competi- 


MEMORIALS.  415 

tive  examination  which  demonstrated  his  special  fitness 
for  the  post,  was  appointed  an  Assistant  Surgeon  in  that 
service  and  at  the  head  of  the  list  of  applicants  of  the 
same  date.  His  remarkable  gift  of  organization  and  his 
military  training  here  speedily  advanced  him  from  grade 
to  grade  until  in  1887,  on  the  death  of  the  former  occu- 
pant of  the  position,  Dr.  Hamilton  was  made  Surgeon 
General  of  the  United  States  Marine  Hospital  Service. 
His  life  in  Washington  when  filling  this  high  position 
brought  him  into  close  contact  with  many  of  the  distin- 
guished men  of  his  day,  including  not  only  the  President 
of  the  United  States,  but  cabinet  officers,  members  of 
Congress,  and  the  military  men  of  all  branches  of  the 
service.  His  advice  was  now  repeatedly  sought  on  ques- 
tions of  the  greatest  national  importance,  chiefly  in  the 
matter  of  quarantine  in  seasons  of  epidemic  threatening 
the  inhabitants  of  our  country.  General  Hamilton  at 
one  time  accompanied  the  Secretary  of  the  United  States 
Treasury  to  Europe  on  an  important  mission  connected 
with  his  branch  of  the  service.  At  these  times  his  vigi- 
lance extended  along  the  entire  seaboard  of  the  country 
and  his  influence  had  a  bearing  in  shaping  the  legislation 
which  has  protected  our  shores  during  recent  years  from 
incursions  of  foreign-bred  pestilence.  During  the  period 
of  his  greatest  activity  in  Washington,  Dr.  Hamilton 
found  time  to  busy  himself  with  his  lectures  in  the  Med- 
ical Department  of  the  University  of  Georgetown,  where, 
by  special  invitation  of  the  Faculty,  he  was  filling  the 
chair  of  Surgery. 

In  the  year  1891,  Dr.  Hamilton  was  called  to  the  chair 
of  Principles  of  Surgery  in  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago; 
and,  attracted  by  the  large  opportunities  of  the  metrop- 
olis of  his  native  State,  he  did  not  hesitate  to  abandon  at 
once  all  the  important  positions  be  held  in  Washington. 


4l6  MEMORIALS. 

It  was  soon  after  this  change  that  the  American  Medical 
Association  elected  Dr.  Hamilton  editor-in-chief  of  its 
official  publication,  The  Journal  of  the  American  Medical 
Association.  Here,  as  in  other  positions  which  he  held, 
his  amazing  power  of  organization,  his  exact  methods,  and 
his  fine  literary  acquirements,  served  him  greatly.  The 
Journal  rose  at  once  by  leaps  and  bounds,  until  in  its 
size,  its  circulation,  its  influence  in  his  profession,  and 
last  but  not  least  in  its  financial  prosperity,  it  found  itself 
in  the  forefront  of  the  publications  of  its  class  edited  in 
America. 

Dr.  Hamilton  was  tendered  the  superintendency  of  the 
State  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Elgin  in  this  State;  and 
though  it  seemed  impossible  for  him  to  assume  this  bur- 
den in  addition  to  his  work  in  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
his  physical  strength  proved  equal  to  the  task.  The 
Elgin  Asylum  was  never  more  economically,  more  skill- 
fully, and  more  carefully  managed  than  under  Dr.  Ham- 
ilton's administration. 

The  energy  and  unbounded  capacity  of  our  Companion 
for  labor  seemed  to  acknowledge  no  limits.  By  invitation 
of  the  Governor,  Dr.  Hamilton  was  also  commissioned 
Colonel  of  one  of  the  regiments  of  the  State,  composed 
of  sons  of  veterans;  and  among  his  last  official  duties  was 
the  providing  of  arms,  rations  and  uniforms  for  two  com- 
panies of  his  regiment  when  they  started  for  service  in 
connection  with  the  labor  troubles  which  were  then 
threatening  the  peace  of  Pana. 

The  recital  of  the  self-imposed  tasks  and  multiform 
duties  which  made  up  the  life  of  our  departed  Compan- 
ion, furnishes  a  tale  that  must  seem  marvelous  to  those 
the  current  of  whose  lives  has  flowed  on  smoothly  and 
without  diversification  from  year  to  year.  We  believe 
that  the  key-note  to  this  remarkable  career  is  to  be  sought 


MEMORIALS.  417 

in  the  early  discipline  which  young  Hamilton  received  as 
a  private  in  the  ranks  of  the  American  army.  Here  he 
learned  lessons  of  strict  obedience,  of  unhesitating  re- 
sponse to  every  call  to  duty,  of  fearlessness,  of  unselfish- 
ness, and  of  that  high  sense  of  honor  which  is  nowhere 
better  cultivated  than  under  the  genial  warmth  of  a  fine 
esprit  de  corps.  Add  to  this  schooling,  a  love  of  books, 
a  scholastic  method,  and  a  professional  training,  and  the 
result  is  before  us.  Dr.  Hamilton  was  successful  in 
every  interest  with  which  he  was  associated;  he  prized1 
his  record  above  all  riches;  his  fingers  were  never  soiled 
by  contact  with  unworthily  acquired  gains;  and  his  life 
ended  unblemished  and  worthily  rounded  out,  after  some 
of  the  serious  complications  of  typhoid  fever,  on  the  24th 
of  December,  1898. 

"  Some  with  the  bayonet  in  hand, 

Some  with  the  sword-blade  fought; 
Some  of  us  ordered  to  stay  and  stand, 

Some  how  to  die  were  taught  ! 
But  by  order  of  the  Captain-King 

Though  our  comrades  be  fast  sped, 
On  His  muster-call  the  names  shall  ring 

Of  the  living  and  the  dead  !  " 

RICHARD  S.  TUTHILL, 
JAMES  NEVINS  HYDE, 
DANIEL  R.  BROWER, 

Committee- 


GEORGE  PRESSLY  McCLELLAND. 

Captain   One  Hundred  and  Fifty  fifth  Pennsylvania  Infantry   and 
Brevet  Major,    United  States   Volunteers.     Died  at  Daven- 
port,  Iowa,    December  27,   1898 

ONCE  more  we  mourn  the  loss  of  a  beloved,  honored 
and  patriotic  Companion.  George  P.  McClelland, 
was  born  November  11,  1842,  at  Pittsburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, the  youngest  of  six  children,. and  died  at  Daven- 
port, Iowa,  December  27,  1898.  The  call  to  the 
defense  of  the  Union,  found  him  at  the  age  of  nineteen, 
possessed  of  a  fairly  good  schooling,  and  an  acquaint- 
ance with  hard  work  that  was  born  of  actual  contact. 
He  had  never  been  of  rugged  health,  and  when  he  en- 
listed, in  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fifth  Pennsylvania 
Infantry,  his  family  and  friends  feared  that  he  would 

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MEMORIALS.  419 

succumb  to  the  privations  of  a  soldier's  life.      His  record 
as  a  soldier,  however,  was  one  of  the  best. 

Before  leaving  camp,  he  was  made  a  Corporal.  After 
Antietam,  he  was  a  Sergeant;  after  Fredericksburg,  an 
Orderly  Sergeant;  after  Gettysburg,  a  Second  Lieu- 
tenant; after  the  Battle  in  the  Wilderness,  a  Captain; 
after  Five  Forks,  a  Brevet  Major. 

The  commission  that  made  Captain  McClelland  a 
Brevet  Major,  reads,  "For  gallant  and  meritorious  con- 
duct at  the  Battle  of  Five  Forks." 

He  participated  in  nine  of  the  great  battles  of  the 
Rebellion.  He  was  wounded  in  the  right  foot  at  North 
Anna  but  was  only  a  short  time  off  duty.  His  left  hip 
was  terribly  shattered  at  Five  Forks,  and  a  comrade 
who  gave  him  his  flask,  remarked,  "That  is  all  he  will 
need  in  this  world."  Removed  to  the  hospital  in  Pitts- 
burg,  he  was  found  and  nursed  back  to  life,  by  his  sister 
Anna,  but  the  wound  made  him  an  invalid  for  life. 
Though  a  great  sufferer,  no  one  was  more  patriotic  and 
his  love  for  the  flag  was  intense. 

He  became  a  resident  of  Davenport,  Iowa,  in  1867, 
since  which  time,  he  has  been  prominently  identified  in 
the  progress  and  growth  of  that  city.  As  an  organizer 
and  President  of  the  Davenport  Building  and  Loan  As- 
sociation, he  has  assisted  the  industrious  poor  to  build 
many  homes.  An  organizer  and  supporter  of  scientific 
charity,  he  has  been  of  great  benefit  to  the  worthy  poor. 

Of  scholarly  tastes,  he  added  the  charm  of  culture  to 
that  of  frank,  honest  friendship.  We  shall  miss  his  wise 
counsel  and  genial  Companionship,  but  the  memory  of 
his  patriotic,  generous  and  noble  manhood  will  ever  be 
an  inspiration  for  good.  MORTON  L.  MARKS, 

EUGENE  B.   HAYWARD, 
MELZAR  J.   EAGLE, 

Committee. 


LEWIS  HENRY  BOUTELL. 

Major   Forty-fifth   Missouri   Infantry,     United   States    Volunteers-. 
Died  at   Washington,   District  of   Columbia,  January  16, 


fEWIS  H.  BOUTELL  was  born  at  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, July  21,  1826,  and  died  at  Washington, 
^""^  District  of  Columbia,  January  16,  1899.  He 
graduated  from  Brown  University  in  1844,  and  from 
the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1847. 

Commencing  the  practice  of  law  in  his  native  city, 
he  there  remained  until  September  26,  1862;  when  he 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Forty-fifth  Massachusetts 
Infantry. 

September  29,  1864,  he  was  made  Major  of  the 
Forty-fifth  Missouri  Volunteers. 

While  with  the    Forty-fifth   Massachusetts   he   went 

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MEMORIALS.  421 

with  it  to  Newbern,  North  Carolina,  where,  in  December, 
1862,  he  was  transferred  to  the  Signal  Corps,  serving 
therein  under  General  Foster  and  General  Hunter. 

As  Major  of  the  Forty-fifth  Missouri  he  took  part  in 
the  defense  of  Jefferson  City  when  it  was  attacked  by 
General  Price. 

In  December,  1864,  he  was  ordered  to  Nashville, 
and  there  served  under  General  Thomas  at  the  battle  of 
Nashville. 

At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  service,  March  6, 
1865,  he  was  mustered  out. 

Coming  to  Chicago  in  1865,  he  was  for  a  time  Assist- 
ant United  States  Attorney  in  the  office  of  the  District 
Attorney  for  the  Northern  District  of  Illinois. 

The  duties  of  this  position  he  filled  with  great  credit 
to  himself  and  satisfaction  to  those  with  whom  he  came 
in  contact. 

At  this  time,  when  many  new  questions  consequent 
upon  the  internal  revenue  measures  adopted  during  the 
war  were  arising,  Mr.  Boutell  was  the  lawyer  upon 
whose  judgment  dependence  was  placed  and  action  had 
by  the  government  officials  in  this  district. 

Shortly  after  the  great  fire  of  1871  Mr.  Boutell  en- 
gaged in  private  practice,  becoming  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Upton,  Boutell  &  Waterman. 

Thereafter  the  firm  was  changed  by  the  retirement 
of  Mr.  Upton  upon  his  election  to  the  bench,  and  the 
admission  of  Mr.  H.  S.  Boutell,  now  one  of  the  members 
of  Congress  elected  from  this  city. 

Some  ten  years  ago  Mr.  Boutell  retired  from  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession  and  devoted  the  declin- 
ing years  of  his  life  to  travel  and  literary  pursuits. 

Visiting  the  Old  World,  he  looked  upon  and  studied 
the  works  of  the  great  masters  in  art. 


422  MEMORIALS. 

Gifted  with  a  keen  sense  of  and  love  for  the  beautiful, 
the  galleries  of  France,  Italy,  Germany  and  England, 
were  to  him  aisles  whose  walls  spoke  that  language 
which  artistic  souls  alone  understand. 

Returning  to  his  native  land  he  wrote  a  life  of  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  and  also  one  of  Roger  Sherman  of  the 
Revolution. 

He  was  for  many  years  a  consistent  and  devoted 
member  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Evanston,  in 
which  city  he  had  for  thirty  years  his  beautiful  home. 

He  was  social,  kind,  pure,  gentle,  serene,  learned. 
Possessing  great  ability,  he  lived  and  moved  quietly 
among  his  fellow  men. 

Not  an  orator  for  the  hustings,  he  was  a  thinker 
among  scholars.  His  well  rounded  life  flowed  like  the 
current  of  a  deep  river  through  fruitful  fields,  beneath 
the  shadow  of  stately  forests,  beside  and  blessing  garden 
and  city;  reflecting  the  image  of  stars  and  sky,  bearing 
the  imprint  of  sunshine  and  storm  to  the  great  ocean, 
the  unfathomed,  shoreless  sea  whose  waters  await  the 
coming  of  all  souls. 

Dear  Friend  !  Beloved  Companion  !  Pure  Soul  ! 
Hail  and  Farewell  ! 

AREA  N.   WATERMAN, 
EDWARD   D.   REDINGTON, 
EZRA  B.    McCAGG, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  KEYPORTS  BRADY. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  (Retired)  United  States  Army.      Died  at  Chicago, 
Illinois,  January  20,  i8gg. 


KEYPORTS  BRADY  was  bom  at  cham- 

bersburg,  Pennsylvania,  December  9,  1839,  and 
died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  January  20,  1899.  He 
was  a  son  of  Hon.  Jasper  E  wing  Brady,  who  represented 
his  district  in  Congress,  and  a  direct  lineal  descendant  of 
Captain  Samuel  Brady  and  General  Hugh  Brady;  men 
whose  skill  and  prudence  and  daring  in  Indian  fighting 
made  their  names  household  words  among  the  early 
settlers. 

He  responded  to  the  first  call  for  troops,  enlisting  in 
Company  B,  Twelfth  Pennsylvania  Infantry,  U.  S.  V., 
April  25,  1861,  and  remaining  with  the  company  until 

423 


424  MEMORIALS. 

July  8th,  when  he  accepted  a  commission  as  First  Lieu- 
tenant, Fourteenth  Infantry,  United  States  Army,  his 
appointment  dating  from  May  14,  1861.  During  the 
remainder  of  that  year  he  was  on  duty  at  Fort  Trumbull, 
Connecticut,  and  in  January,  1862,  joined  his  regiment 
at  Perryville,  Maryland.  With  it  he  participated  in  the 
battles  of  the  Peninsular  Campaign,  Yorktown,  Gaines 
Mill,  White  Oak  Swamp,  Malvern  Hill,  Second  Bull 
Run,  Smoker's  Gap,  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Laurel 
Hill,  Petersburg  and  Weldon  Railroad.  In  the  last 
named  battle,  while  serving  as  Adjutant  General  of  the 
Brigade,  he  was  wounded,  taken  prisoner  and  confined 
in  Libby  Prison.  He  was  promoted  to  Captain  June  10, 
1864,  and  August  18,  1864,  received  a  brevet  as  Major, 
United  States  Army,  for  his  gallantry  in  the  battle  at  the 
Weldon  Railroad.  He  was  paroled  in  September,  1864, 
and  went  to  New  York  City,  where  he  did  good  service 
in  the  draft  riot  and,  as  soon  as  exchanged  rejoined  his 
regiment  at  the  front,  and  March  16,  1865,  received  a 
brevet  as  Lieutenant  Colonel  United  States  Army  for  gal- 
lant and  meritorious  services  during  the  war.  In  October 
of  that  year,  he  went  to  the  Pacific  coast,  via  Panama, 
and  from  that  time  to  the  day  of  his  retirement,  his  rec- 
ord is  that  of  many  another  gallant  soldier;  untiring 
devotion  to  duty;  the  thousand  petty  details  of  caring  for 
and  cheering  the  men  in  the  ranks  at  lonely  frontier 
posts;  perils  of  fire  and  flood,  and  savage  foes,  even  more 
deadly  than  those  he  faced  throughout  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion;  services  for  which  no  recompense  could  be 
given,  not  even  a  brevet,  because  the  Government  did 
not  recognize  Indian  fighting  as  war. 

He  was  transferred  to  the  Twenty-third  Infantry,  Sep- 
tember 21,1 866;  promoted  to  Major,  Eighteenth  Infantry, 
March  I,  1886;  Lieutenant  Colonel  Seventeenth  Infantry, 


MEMORIALS.  425 

March  19,  1891,  and  August  16,  1894,  was  retired,  at 
his  own  request,  after  more  than  thirty  years  continuous 
service. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Order  through  the  Commandery 
of  the  State  of  California,  November  19,  1884,  and  trans- 
ferred to  this  Commandery  January  2,  1895.  During 
the  four  years  of  his  membership  here,  he  rarely  missed 
a  meeting  and  was  devoted  to  the  best  interests  of  the 
Order. 

He  served  his  country  well;  he  has  gone  to  his  reward. 
To  his  beloved  wife,  who  shared  with  him  the  loneli- 
ness and  dangers  of  many  years  of  frontier  life,  and  his 
devoted  son,  we  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathies. 

CHARLES  R.   E.    KOCH, 
JOHN  A.    GRIER, 
CHARLES  F.    MATTESON, 

Committee. 


STANDISH  VORCE   CORNISH. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster  Eightieth  New  York  Infantry, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 

January  23,  1899. 

*7T.NOTHER  name  has  been  added  to  the  list  of  beloved 
[\  Companions  taken  by  death  from  our  Command- 
^*  ery.  Lieutenant  Standish  Vorce  Cornish  died  very 
suddenly  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  January  25,  1899.  Lieu- 
tenant Cornish  was  born  February  25,  1845,  at  Lexing- 
ton, Green  County,  New  York.  He  entered  the  volun- 
teer army  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  March  10,  1862, 
being  enrolled  as  private  in  Company  G,  Twentieth  New 
York  State  Militia,  known  as  the  Eightieth  New  York 
Infantry.  Made  Corporal  January  i,  1863;  Sergeant, 
January  i,  1864;  Second  Lieutenant,  Company  D,  Jan- 

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MEMORIALS.  427 

uary  10,  1865;  First  Lieutenant,  Company  K,  sameregi-. 
ment,    April    15,    1865;   appointed  Regimental   Quarter- 
master,   June    15,    1865;   mustered  out  of  service,    July 
25,   1865. 

Lieutenant  Cornish  was  with  his  regiment  in  the  fol- 
lowing engagements:  Norman's  Ford,  Virginia,  August 
25,  1862;  Second  Bull  Run,  August  30,  1862;  Chantilly, 
Virginia,  September  I,  1862;  Fredericksburg,  Virginia, 
December  12  to  15,  1862;  Gettysburg,  July  I  to  4,  1863; 
also  participated  in  the  Wilderness  Campaign.  He  was 
wounded  during  the  engagement  at  Manassas,  but  re- 
joined his  regiment  after  remaining  in  hospital  some  six 
weeks. 

Entering  the  service  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  but  a 
mere  boy,  he  was  a  noble  type  of  the  American  volunteer 
soldier.  Steadfast  and  faithful  to  duty,  he  received  fre- 
quent and  merited  promotion,  and  had  not  yet  attained 
his  majority  at  the  time  of  his  muster  out  of  service. 
His  name  will  ever  remain  inscribed  on  our  country's  roll 
of  honor.  It  may  truly  be  said  the  boys  of  America  were 
the  real  heroes  of  the  war. 

Several  years  after  the  close  of  the  war  Companion 
Cornish  removed  to  LaSalle,  Illinois,  and  was  engaged 
with  railroad  and  coal  mining  companies.  On  September 
14,  1871,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  V.  Laning  at 
La  Salle,  Illinois.  His  wife  and  one  daughter  survive 
him,  two  children,  a  son  and  daughter,  having  been  re- 
moved by  death.  Comrade  Cornish  became  a  resident 
of  this  city  some  twenty  years  ago,  and  has  during  that 
time  been  almost  continuously  identified  with  the  coal 
trade.  Faithful,  efficient,  and  of  strictest  integrity,  he 
was  loved  and  respected  by  his  business  associates.  He 
enjoyed  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  in  the  com- 
munity where  he  has  resided  for  many  years.  A  kind 


428  MEMORIALS. 

and  loving  husband  and  father,  a  true  Christian,  noble 
and  generous,  whose  acts  of  charity  were  often  really 
beyond  his  means,  those  who  knew  him  best  loved  him 
most.  To  his  bereaved  family  we  tender  our  sincere  and 
heartfelt  sympathy  in  their  sad  affliction. 

AMBROSE  S.   DELAWARE, 
JOSEPH  J.   SIDDALL, 
MILTON  B.   MILLER, 

Committee. 


JAMES  ANDREW  SEXTON. 

Captain  Seventy -second  Illinois  Infantry,   United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  February  5,   i8gg. 


JAMES  ANDREW  SEXTON,   a  Companion  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  departed  this 
life  on  the  5th  day  of  February,  1899. 
Companion  Sexton  was  born  in  the  City  of  Chicago, 
and  here  he  grew  to  young  manhood  with  such  educa- 
tional advantages  as  the  public  schools  of  the  city  offered. 
Nothing  seems  to    have   distinguished   his   boyhood 
career,  except  that  he  possessed  an  alert  mind,  connected 
with  a  robust  physical  existence.      It  was  said  of  him  by 
one  of  his  playfellows  that  "Jim  could  run  a  race  with 
any  of  the  boys,  and  was  quick  to  learn."     These  char- 
acteristics of  his  early  youth  typify  those  traits  of  char- 

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43O  MEMORIALS. 

acter  which  were  recognized  and  appreciated  by  his 
companions  both  in  the  early  and  mature  years  of  his 
manhood. 

He  was  ready  made  when  emergency  arose,  and 
events  seldom  found  Sexton  hesitating  either  for  lack  of 
equipment,  or  doubt  as  to  the  course  of  conduct  to  be 
followed.  And  so  it  came  when  the  flag  of  his  country 
was  stricken  by  internal  foes  in  April,  1861,  our  Com- 
panion well  knew  the  line  of  duty  to  be  pursued.  The 
opportunity  and  the  will  alike  were  his,  and  without  any 
hesitation  or  doubt  of  his  capability  to  efficiently  perform 
his  part  in  the  magnificent  drama  which  opened  to  his 
young  vision,  he  introduced  himself  to  the  public  service 
of  his  country  without  unnecessary  delay  or  parade,  as  a 
private  soldier  in  the  Union  army. 

He  was  first  mustered  as  a  volunteer  soldier  on  April 
19,  1861,  and  served  well  and  faithfully  until  mustered 
out  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  service  on  July  25th 
of  that  year.  At  the  end  of  his  three  months'  enlistment, 
he  re-enlisted  in  the  Sixty-seventh  Illinois  Infantry,  and 
was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  of  Company  E  in  that 
regiment.  The  Sixty-seventh  was  one  of  the  one-hun- 
dred days'  regiments  in  which  our  Companion  served 
creditably  until  mustered  out  with  that  command.  He 
then  returned  to  his  Chicago  home  rilled  with  a  patriotic 
ardor  which  had  been  unusually  well  disciplined  and 
directed  by  his  military  experience.  During  the  winter 
and  spring  of  1862  he  gave  his  time  largely  to  the  instruc- 
tion and  drill  of  quasi-military  organizations  in  this  city, 
and  when  the  Seventy-second  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry, 
commonly  known  as  the  First  Board  of  Trade  regiment, 
was  organized,  Sexton  was  appointed,  and  in  August  of 
that  year  was  mustered  in  as  Captain  of  Company  D  in 
that  organization. 


MEMORIALS.  431 

This  regiment  was  immediately  equipped  for  service 
and  sent  to  the  front  for  active  military  duty,  and  from 
the  time  it  left  Chicago  until  the  close  of  the  struggle,  it 
was  constantly  connected  with  active  military  operations, 
and  won  honors  on  many  of  the  hardest  fought  fields  of 
the  Civil  War.  It  may  be  said  without  undue  praise  or 
unmerited  distinction,  that  the  Seventy-second  Illinois 
was  a  well-equipped  military  organization,  and  was  dis- 
tinguished for  the  capability,  intelligence,  efficiency  and 
courage,  not  only  of  its  officers  but  of  its  rank  and  file. 

It  is  probably  sufficient  praise  to  say  of  Captain  Sex- 
ton personally  that  during  the  whole  of  his  military  career 
he  discharged  every  duty  assigned  to  him  with  unusual 
intelligence  and  ability,  and  that  as  a  skillful  and  faithful 
soldier  of 'the  Republic,  sincerely  impressed  with  the 
grandeur  of  an  exalted  mission  in  the  splendid  triumphs 
of  which  he  was  an  honored  participant,  he  was  "  without 
fear  and  without  reproach.  " 

Sometime  subsequent  to  the  battles  of  Franklin  and 
Nashville,  and  in  recognition  of  his  special  fitness,  Cap- 
tain Sexton  was  detailed  for  duty  upon  the  Staff  of  Major 
General  A.  J.  Smith,  and  in  that  capacity  served  until 
after  the  campaign  which  ended  in  the  surrender  of 
Mobile.  He  returned  with  his  regiment  to  Chicago  and 
was  mustered  out  of  the  service  in  August,  1865,  and 
soon  thereafter  engaged  as  a  planter  in  Alabama,  but 
subsequently  turned  his  attention  to  the  manufacturing 
business  and  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Cribben, 
Sexton  &  Co.,  the  well-known  stove  manufacturers  of 
this  city.  This  business  relation  he  continued  until  a 
short  time  previous  to  his  death;  and  to  his  patient  in- 
dustry, sterling  character  and  unquestioned  ability  in 
affairs,  was  in  large  measure  due  the  enviable  reputation 
and  profitable  careerof  that  successful  business  enterprise. 


432  MEMORIALS. 

Captain  Sexton's  career  was  filled  with  useful  activities 
in  many  of  the  affairs  of  life.  He  ever  manifested  an  in- 
tense regard  for  those  who  had  been  his  comrades  in  arms; 
and  for  the  past  twenty-five  years  few  members  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  were  more  prominent  in  its 
councils,  or  more  deservedly  esteemed  for  faithful  services 
than  our  late  Companion.  He  was  a  firm  believer  in  the 
objects  and  utilities  of  that  patriotic  Association  of  the 
veteran  soldiers  of  the  Union  Army;  and  to  that  organi- 
zation and  its  manifold  interests,  and  to  the  welfare  and 
comfort  of  its  members  he  gave  largely  both  in  time 
and  labor. 

Recognizing  not  only  his  untiring  devotion  and  un- 
selfish services,  but  his  special  fitness,  his  late  comrades 
elected  him  Commander,  first  of  the  Department  of 
Illinois,  and  in  September,  1898,  Commander  in  Chief 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  The  duties  of  these 
high  stations  he  discharged  with  exemplary  wisdom  and 
unquestioned  fidelity. 

In  civil  life  also  Companion  Sexton  received  signal 
honors.  He  was  appointed  Postmaster  of  Chicago  by 
President  Harrison  in  April,  1889,  and  continued  to  hold 
that  office  for  nearly  five  years.  His  administration  as 
Postmaster  of  this  city  was  marked  by  unusual  prudence 
and  sagacity,  and  his  conduct  of  its  affairs  met  the  hearty 
approval  of  the  community,  without  respect  to  class  or 
party. 

Again  when  public  complaint  about  the  conduct  of 
our  recent  war  with  Spain  became  so  loud  as  to  demand 
official  action,  the  President  invited  Companion  Sexton 
to  become  a  member  of  the  Commission  appointed  for 
the  purpose  of  making  a  thorough  investigation  of  every- 
thing connected  with  the  Spanish  war.  This  invitation 
was  accepted  as  a  matter  of  patriotic  duty.  To  the  work 


MEMORIALS.  433 

of  that  Commission  Sexton  loyally  gave  his  heart,  his 
strength  and  his  mind,  and  it  was  while  in  the  conscien- 
tious performance  of  his  duty  in  that  behalf  that  the 
final  summons  came  to  him.  And  so  at  last  he  fell  on 
the  field  of  action  whither  he  had  been  called  in  the  per- 
formance of  patriotic  duty. 

Companion  Sexton  had  a  strong,  active  and  attractive 
personality.  His  presence  and  his  influence  were  felt  in 
whatever  relation  he  sustained  to  his  fellow  man. 

Never  unnecessarily  obtrusive  in  public  associations, 
he  was  always  fearless,  clear-sighted  and  forceful.  Always 
insistent  upon  his  own  views,  ever  persevering  in  his  own 
purposes,  he  was  at  the  same  time  considerate  of  the 
wishes  and  regardful  of  the  interests  of  others. 

He  was  both  a  thoughtful  and  a  studious  man.  He 
was  quick  to  understand  the  motives,  and  both  ready  and 
willing  to  appreciate  the  strength  and  arguments  of  those 
with  whom  he  differed.  He  was  always  in  the  open, 
and  it  was  not  possible  for  him  to  conceal  his  attitude 
toward  any  man  or  any  measure,  but  he  was  withal  ear- 
nest in  his  purposes,  kindly  in  his  sympathies  and  sincere 
in  his  attachments. 

As  a  Companion,  justly  esteemed  for  his  many  com- 
manding virtues,  his  unflinching  fidelity  to  every  trust, 
his  fervent  loyalty  to  his  country  and  its  flag,  for  his  civic 
worth,  and  for  his  warm  and  helpful  friendship,  we  honor 
his  name  and  commend  his  example. 

FRANCIS  A.   RIDDLE, 
EDWARD  A.   BLODGETT, 
GEO.   H.    HEAFFORD, 

Committee. 


EDWARD  SOUTHLAND  CHAPIN. 

Captain   {Retired)    United  States  Army.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 
May  j>,  i8gg. 

OUR  Companion  Edward  S.  Chapin  died  at  Chicago 
on  the  3rd  day  of  May,  1 899,  at  the  age  of  only  54 
years.  Born  in  Tariffville,  Connecticut,  in  1845, 
he  enlisted  in  the  Civil  War,  when  a  mere  lad,  as  a  pri- 
vate in  Company  A,  Forty-fourth  Iowa  Volunteer  Infantry, 
and  served  until  the  war  was  over.  On  the  ist  day  of 
July,  1866,  he  was  admitted  as  a  cadet  at  West  Point, 
and  having  graduated  with  honors,  he  served  a  number 
of  years  as  Second  and  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Fourth 
United  States  Artillery,  until,  on  the  I2th  of  August, 
1882,  he  was  transferred  to  the  Fifteenth  United  States 

434 


MEMORIALS.  435 

Infantry  Regiment,  in  which,  on  the  27th  of  February, 
1888,  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain.  Owing 
to  ill  health  he  was  retired,  at  his  own  request,  on  the 
7th  of  November,  1 896,  after  nearly  thirty-three  years  of 
constant  military  service.  Apart  from  his  service  during 
the  Rebellion  he  participated  in  the  Modoc  and  other 
Indian  wars  with  distinguished  honor,  and  he  owed  his 
promotions  mainly  to  his  conspicuous  bravery  in  action. 

Always  a  zealous  student,  and  deeply  interested  in 
the  solution  of  scientific  problems,  Captain  Chapin  had 
acquired  an  unusually  wide  range  of  knowledge  and  most 
extraordinary  attainments.  As  an  engineer  of  high  ability 
he  early  appreciated  the  possibilities  of  air  as  a  secondary 
power,  and  thus  he  became  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the 
application  and  introduction  of  compressed  air  for  street 
railroad  purposes,  holding,  as  he  did,  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  a  position  as  Director  in  the  Compressed  Air  Motor 
Company  of  Illinois.  As  a  military  man  he  had  maturely 
studied  all  the  epoch-making  campaigns  in  history,  and 
the  life  of  every  one  of  the  great  Captains,  from  Alexan- 
der down  to  Grant  and  Moltke,  was  as  familiar  to  him  as 
that  of  an  intimate  friend.  In  his  company  his  friends 
and  Companions  always  felt  the  presence  of  a  superior 
mind. 

In  harmony  with  these  high  intellectual  attainments, 
Captain  Chapin  bore  himself  all  his  life  with  incorrupti- 
ble rectitude,  which  could  only  spring  from  his  training 
at  West  Point  and  his  associations  with  men,  educated 
like  him  in  surroundings,  where  the  keenest  sense  of 
honor  and  strict  obedience  to  duty  are  cultivated  first, 
as  the  very  foundation  stone  for  all  the  other  virtues  of 
the  soldier  and  the  citizen.  Thus  Captain  Chapin  was 
at  all  times  the  very  embodiment  of  an  American  gentle- 
man of  the  highest  type,  mindful  that 


436  MEMORIALS. 


The  purest  treasure  mortal  times  afford, 

Is  spotless  reputation;   that  away, 

Men  are  but  gilded  loam,  or  painted  clay." 


GEORGE  C.   BALL, 
M.   V.   SHERIDAN, 
WILLIAM  VOCKE, 

Committee. 


JOSEPH  LITCHFIELD  LOCKE. 

First    Lieutenant     Thirty-third    Massachusetts     Infantry,     United 
States   Vohinteers.     Died  at   Chicago,   Illinois,  July  15,   i8qq. 

JOSEPH  LITCHFIELD  LOCKE  was  born  at  Mer- 
rimac,    New  Hampshire,    February  20,    1841.      He 
enlisted  as  a  private  at  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts, 
in  the  Thirty-third  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry  in 
July,   1862,  and  was  discharged  July  3,  1865,  having  been 
Lieutenant  and  Adjutant.      He  died  July  15,   1899. 

The  family  record  of  Joseph  L.  Locke  brings  before 
us  the  history  of  three  wars  and  reminds  us  of  the  heroic 
expression  of  American  patriotism  under  three  great 
aspects  of  our  national  life:  the  Indian,  Revolutionary  and 
Civil  wars.  John  Locke  in  one,  Moses  Locke  in  another 
and  Joseph  L.  Locke  in  the  last,  stood  bravely  for 

437 


438  MEMORIALS. 

our  nation's  honor  and  fought  for  liberty,  independence 
and  union  with  the  ardor  and  devotion  that  have  made 
the  name  of  American  famous  all  the  world  over  for  the 
highest,  purest  and  holiest  standard  of  true  patriotism 
and  enlightened  liberty. 

The  spirit  of  1876  inherited  by  him,  through  a  noble 
ancestry,  was  awakened  in  the  heart  of  Companion 
Locke  by  the  calls  of  his  country  to  preserve  the  unity 
and  integrity  of  our  nation.  He  responded  with  that 
rugged  determination  to  do  his  duty  which  has  ever 
marked  the  New  England  character,  and  he  went  forth 
to  battle  for  the  right  with  the  transmitted  energy  of 
heroic  pioneers  born  in  him  under  the  shadow  of  the 
granite  hills  of  New  Hampshire. 

He  enlisted  in  July,  1862,  and  served  uninterruptedly 
for  three  years,  experiencing  all  the  rigors  and  horrors 
of  war  in  camp  and  in  field,  on  the  most  exacting 
marches  and  in  the  most  daring  of  military  expeditions. 
He  participated  in  twenty-two  battles,  some  of  them  the 
most  important  in  the  history  of  our  country,  and  also 
conspicuous  among  the  most  brilliant  in  the  military 
achievements  of  the  world.  At  Chancellorsville  and 
Gettysburg,  at  Missionary  Ridge  and  at  Atlanta  he  fought 
bravely  and  endured  patiently  under  the  banner  of  the 
famous  Thirty-third  Massachusetts  Infantry.  He  was 
engaged  in  both  Eastern  and  Western  armies,  partici- 
pated in  notable  conflicts  in  Virginia  and  Tennessee,  in 
Georgia  and  the  Carolinas,  made  long  and  hard  journeys, 
climbed  the  mDuntains,  forded  the  rivers,  waded  through 
the  swamps  and  marched  from  Atlanta  to  the  sea. 

In  his  record  we  are  brought  face  to  face  with  some 
of  the  most  thrilling  incidents  of  the  war  and  see  every 
phase  of  the  great  struggle  most  vividly  presented  to  us. 
All  our  experiences  are  included  in  his  varied  career  so 


MEMORIALS.  439 

that  we  can  most  truly  say  he  was  a  signal  representative 
of  the  memories  of  the  war  which  we  preserve  in  the 
associations  of  the  boys  in  blue.  He  shared  in  victories 
and  suffered  in  defeats.  He  knew  what  it  was  to  pursue 
exultingly  a  fleeing  foe  until  the  darkness  of  night  hid 
him  from  view.  He  also  knew  what  it  was  to  fly  in  dis- 
may before  the  victorious  enemy,  seeking  in  fear  a  place 
of  safety.  Short  rations,  scant  clothing,  bare  feet,  sore 
limbs  and  aching  bodies  were  among  the  hardships  he 
saw  and  shared  in  the  spirit  of  faithful  service  that 
united  in  bravery  the  men  of  Valley  Forge  with  the  men 
of  Lookout  Mountain. 

Companion  Locke  came  to  the  city  of  Chicago  in  the 
year  1875  arid  was  soon  actively  identified  with  different 
organizations  for  the  preservation  of  the  memories  and 
comradeship  of  the  Civil  War.  In  business  and  social 
life  he  was  distinguished  for  urbanity  of  manners  and 
kindness  of  heart  that  won  him  many  friends  and  en- 
deared him  to  the  hearts  of  all  who  were  brought  into 
intimate  associations  with  him.  He  stood  for  the  high- 
est type  of  membership  in  the  organizations  with  which 
he  was  connected.  He  was  chosen  to  high  office  by  his 
friends,  and  fulfilled  the  duties  of  important  positions 
with  an  affability,  fairness  and  efficiency  that  made  him 
respected  by  all.  He  and  Mrs.  Locke  are  widely  known 
for  their  active  efforts  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  differ- 
ent institutions  and  enterprises  for  the  teaching  of 
patriotism  and  the  care  of  our  nation's  heroes. 

He  was  more  a  man  of  deeds  than  of  words,  and  his 
deeds  were  of  the  kind  to  help  his  fellow  men. 

"  'Twere  better  if  we  spent  less  time 

In  sinful,  idle  scheming, 
As  planning  some  absurd  career, 
Or  of  a  mission  dreaming; 


44°  MEMORIALS. 


And  more  in  doing  kindly  acts 

To  make  life's  burden  lighter, 
Thus,  though  our  stay  be  short  on  earth, 

Our  deeds  would  make  it  lighter." 

BRADLEY  DEAN, 
AARON  F.   WALCOTT, 
JOHN  H.    STIBBS, 

Committee. 


DANIEL  WEBSTER  BOSLEY. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Assistant  Surgeon  Third  United  States  Colored 
Artillery.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  October  21,  i8qq. 

'7T.GAIN  we  are  called  upon  to  pay  our  just  tribute  of 
f\         affection  and  respect  to  the  memory  of  a  Com- 
^^*    panion  and  friend  who  departed  this  life  on  the 
2ist  day  of  October,   1899. 

Daniel  Webster  Bosley  was  born  in  Fannington, 
Ohio,  on  the  29th  of  March,  1841,  and  on  May  21,  1861, 
responded  to  the  call  for  troops  for  the  preservation  of 
the  Union.  At  the  age  of  twenty,  he  entered  the  service 
as  a  private  in  Company  E,  Twenty-seventh  New  York 
Infantry,  U.  S.  V.;  was  promoted  to  Hospital  Steward 
in  January,  1862,  and  was  mustered  out  of  the  service 
January  5,  1863. 

441 


442  MEMORIALS. 

He  again  entered  the  service  April  i,  1865,  as  Con- 
tract Surgeon  and  in  that  capacity  served  in  the  United 
States  Army  Hospital  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  Point 
Lookout,  Maryland,  until  August  20,  1865.  On  August 
2/th  following  he  was  mustered  into  the  service  as  Assist- 
ant Surgeon,  Third  United  States  Heavy  Artillery,  and 
was  finally  mustered  out  with  the  field  and  staff  of  that 
regiment,  April  30,  1866. 

He  participated  in  the  battle  of  the  First  Bull  Run, 
West  Point,  Virginia,  Mechanicsville,  Gaines  Mill,  Golds- 
borough  Farm,  Charles  City  Cross  Roads,  White  Oak 
Swamp,  Malvern  Hill,  Second  Bull  Run,  Crompton's 
Pass,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg  and  Fredericksburg 
Heights. 

Upon  returning  to  civil  life  he  practiced  medicine  for 
a  few  years,  but  finding  more  congenial  employment  in 
active  commercial  pursuits  he  abandoned  the  practice  of 
his  profession  and  established  in  this  city  a  manufactur- 
ing business  which  for  thirty  years  he  successfully  con- 
ducted. 

Having  been  a  resident  of  Chicago  for  over  thirty 
years,  his  admirable  qualities  as  a  citizen  are  known  to 
all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  In  all  the  relations 
of  life  his  record  was  such  as  to  entitle  him  to  our  highest 
esteem  and  admiration.  On  the  field  of  deadly  strife;  in 
the  hospital  where  he  administered  to  the  necessities  of 
his  companions  in  arms;  in  civil  life;  in  the  rush  of  active 
business,  he  knew  his  duty  and  did  it  well.  No  higher 
panegyric  could  be  offered  to  his  memory. 

He  leaves  a  widow,  son  and  daughter;  the  son, 
Edward  F.  Bosley,  a  member  of  this  Commandery.  To 
his  bereaved  family  we  offer  our  sincere  condolence,  hop- 
ing that  the  pain  of  their  loss  will  be  in  some  degree 
mitigated  by  the  knowledge  that  he  for  whom  they 


MEMORIALS.  443 

mourn,  so  manfully  fought  life's  battles,  that  in  fame's 
eternal  camping  grounds  he  has  joined  the  bivouac  of  the 
illustrious  dead. 

OBED  W.  WALLIS, 
ALONZO  N.  REECE, 
JOHN  MCLAREN, 

Committee. 


JAMES  LEWIS. 

Colonel  One  Hundred  and  Forty-fourth  Nezu  York  Infantry,   United 
States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Joliet,  Illinois,  October  28,  i8go. 

"  Can  that  man  be  dead 
Whose  spiritual  influence  is  upon  his  kind  ? 
He  lives  in  glory;  and  his  speaking  dust 
Has  more  of  life  than  half  its  breathing  moulds." 

I  HE  men  who  served  so  faithfully  and  heroically  in 
^  the  Union  Army  from  1861  to  1865,  are  rapidly 
passing  away.  Year  by  year  since  the  War  of  the  Re- 
bellion closed,  they  have  been  dropping  from  the  ranks, 
until  to-day  only  about  one-third  of  those  who  served  in 
that  army  are  left  to  tell  the  tale  of  that  heroic  struggle. 
During  all  those  thirty-four  years  Death  has  been  passing 
here  and  there,  and  at  his  touch  the  old  soldier,  without 
regard  to  rank,  age  or  condition,  has  lowered  his  head 

444 


MEMORIALS.  445 

and  yielded  up  his  life.  Our  own  Order  has  not  escaped 
his  unwelcome  presence,  but  each  year  since  its  organi- 
zation many  of  those  who  were  in  the  habit  of  meeting 
with  us  have  been  borne  from  our  midst  to  their  eternal 
home.  At  one  of  our  gatherings  we  meet  this  one  or 
that  one,  and  at  the  next  gathering  he  is  gone  from  us 
forever.  Only  yesterday  Companion  James  Lewis  was 
with  us,  but  to-day  we  see  him  no  more.  Only  yester- 
day we  shook  his  hand,  looked  into  his  smiling  face,  and 
heard  his  voice  when,  as  our  Chaplain,  he  pleaded  with 
God  for  his  blessing  to  rest  upon  our  Order;  but  to-day 
his  hand  is  motionless,  the  smile  has  vanished  from  his 
face,  and  his  voice  is  forever  stilled.  He  died  at  his 
home  in  Jbliet,  Illinois,  on  the  evening  of  October  28, 
1899. 

James  Lewis  was  of  Scotch  descent.  His  parents 
were  both  natives  of  Scotland,  who,  coming  to  this  coun- 
try, located  at  Hamden,  Delaware  County,  New  York, 
where  James  was  born  May  23,  1836.  His  early  life  was 
spent  quietly  at  his  home,  but  as  he  approached  the  time 
when  he  was  expected  to  care  for  himself,  he  learned  the 
trade  of  paper-hanger  and  painter.  He  might  have  fol- 
lowed this  trade,  but  he  was  ambitious  to  obtain  an  edu- 
cation, and,  stimulated  by  this  ambition  he  managed  to 
make  the  required  preparation  at  a  neighboring  academy, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  he  was  enabled  to 
enter  Amherst  College.  In  this  school  young  Lewis  spent 
four  happy  years.  He  loved  his  books  and  was  so  com- 
pletely devoted  to  them  that  he  became  one  of  the  best 
scholars  in  his  class.  It  was  during  his  college  career 
that  he  developed  that  thoroughness  in  whatever  he  un- 
dertook which  was  one  of  his  marked  characteristics 
during  all  his  subsequent  life.  He  felt  that  he  must  do 
his  best  on  every  occasion,  and  his  sense  of  honor  would 


446  MEMORIALS. 

not  let  him  rest  unless  this  was  done.  His  great  ambi- 
tion was  to  master  every  study  which  he  took  up.  He 
wanted  to  be  first  or  among  the  first  in  his  class — not 
that  he  might  rejoice  in  being  superior  to  others,  but 
that,  by  performing  the  task  of  to-day  to  the  best  of  his 
ability,  he  might  be  the  better  prepared  to  undertake  the 
task  of  to-morrow.  Hence,  when  he  graduated  in  1861, 
we  find  him  standing  at  the  head  of  his  class,  and,  three 
years  after  his  graduation,  his  Alma  Mater  recognized 
his  superior  scholarship  by  conferring  upon  him  the  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Arts. 

After  leaving  college  young  Lewis  taught  school  for 
a  short  time,  but  as  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  was  then 
raging,  he  soon  learned,  as  many  other  young  men  learned 
during  those  terrible  days,  that  he  could  not  be  content 
to  remain  at  home  when  his  country  was  calling  so  loudly 
for  his  help  in  the  army.  The  summer  of  1862  was  a 
dark  time  for  the  Union  cause.  Over  five  hundred  thous- 
and national  troops  had  been  called  into  active  service, 
but  these  had  met  with  frequent  defeat,  and  little  thus 
far  had  been  accomplished  toward  crushing  the  rebellion. 
More  troops  were  needed,  and  on  July  i,  1862,  President 
Lincoln  issued  his  call  for  three  hundred  thousand  addi- 
tional volunteers.  Young  Lewis  felt  that  the  time  had 
now  come  for  him  to  enter  the  army.  Accordingly,  he 
abandoned  his  teaching,  returned  to  his  native  place,  and 
with  the  assistance  of  others  raised  a  company  of  recruits, 
in  which  was  his  father  and  one  brother,  and  which  was 
mustered  into  the  United  States  service  as  Company  C, 
One  Hundred  and  Forty-fourth  Regiment  New  York  Vol- 
unteers. Of  this  company  young  Lewis  was  chosen  and 
commissioned  Captain,  his  commission  being  dated  Sep- 
tember i,  1862.  As  soon  as  organized,  the  regiment 
was  hurried  to  the  front,  and  wherever  it  went,  Captain 


MEMORIALS.  447 

Lewis  was  found  at  his  post,  doing  his  duty  as  a  true 
soldier  and  patriot.  He  proved  himself  to  be  an  apt 
scholar  in  learning  military  tactics  and  drill,  became  a 
good  disciplinarian,  was  prompt  to  obey  and  ready  to  do, 
looked  carefully  after  the  welfare  of  his  men,  was  con- 
scientious and  thorough  in  the  discharge  of  military 
duties,  and  was  exceptionally  cool  and  brave  upon  the 
field  of  battle.  His  efficiency  and  gallantry  brought  him 
into  prominence,  and  he  was  made  Lieutenant  Colonel 
of  his  regiment  May  24,  1863,  and  was  promoted  to  the 
Colonelcy  September  25,  1864.  In  these  various  official 
positions,  Colonel  Lewis  served  with  his  regiment  con- 
tinuously until  it  was  mustered  out  of  service,  June  25, 
1865.  The  regiment  campaigned  mostly  in  North  and 
South  Carolina,  and  with  it  the  Colonel  took  part  in 
many  bloody  and  hard-fought  battles.  With  it  he  was 
present  at  the  sieges  of  Suffolk  and  Charleston,  took  part 
in  the  assault  upon  Fort  Wagner,  and  did  gallant  service 
in  the  engagements  at  Johns's  Island,  Honeyhill,  Coosa- 
hatchie,  James  Island  and  many  other  places  where  foe 
met  foe  in  deadly  conflict.  Under  the  command  of  its 
efficient  Colonel,  the  regiment  became  recognized  as  one 
of  the  very  best  in  the  service,  and  Colonel  Lewis  was 
highly  complimented  by  both  his  division  and  brigade 
commanders  for  having  brought  the  regiment  to  such  a 
high  degree  of  military  discipline  and  efficiency.  In  fact, 
Colonel  Lewis  was  an  ideal  soldier.  Having  given  him- 
self to  his  country,  he  felt  that  he  owed  to  his  country 
all  that  he  could  give  of  devotion  and  labor  and  sacrifice. 
No  burden  was  too  onerous,  no  undertaking  too  difficult, 
no  self-denial  too  great,  and  no  danger  too  full  of  peril, 
to  turn  him  back  from  the  path  which  duty  bade  him 
tread.  He  fully  realized  the  great  responsibility  which 
rested  upon  him  as  an  officer,  and  he  moved  forward,  at 


448  MEMORIALS. 

• 

all  times  and  under  all  circumstances,  to  meet  that  re- 
sponsibility with  a  strong  will  and  a  courageous  heart. 
He  entered  the  army,  not  because  he  had  any  fondness 
for  military  life,  but  because  he  saw  that  the  government 
which  he  loved  was  in  danger  and  felt  it  to  be  his  duty 
to  do  what  he  could  to  avert  that  danger  and  rescue  the 
government  from  peril.  The  record  which  he  made  is  a 
brilliant  one,  showing  him  to  have  been  one  of  our  best, 
bravest  and  most  efficient  volunteer  soldiers. 

Shortly  after  Colonel  Lewis  left  the  army,  he  entered 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
spent  three  years  in  studying  for  the  ministry.  Here,  as 
elsewhere,  he  showed  himself  to  be  an  earnest  and  inde- 
fatigable worker,  not  only  prosecuting  his  studies  with 
vigor,  but  during  his  vacations  preaching  here  and  there, 
and  in  many  various  ways  seeking  to  prepare  himself  for 
the  duties  of  his  chosen  profession.  Graduating  from 
the  seminary  in  1868,  he  was  at  once  licensed  to  preach, 
and  going  West,  he  located  at  Humboldt,  Kansas,  under 
the  direction  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions. In  this  new  field  he  labored  faithfully  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  not  only  preaching  to  the  small  church 
which  he  organized  at  Humboldt,  but  doing  a  vast  amount 
of  ministerial  work  in  places  round  about.  In  1869  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Mary  Farrand,  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  who 
went  with  him  directly  after  the  marriage  to  his  Western 
home,  and  who  proved  herself  a  worthy  helper  to  her 
husband  in  all  his  varied  and  responsible  work.  In  1875 
he  left  Humboldt  and  became  Pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Howell,  Michigan,  and  in  1882  he  accepted  a 
call  to  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church  at  Joliet,  Illinois, 
where  he  remained  until  the  day  of  his  death. 

During  all  the  years  of  his  ministry,  Colonel  Lewis 
brought  to  his  work  that  same  earnestness,  thoroughness 


MEMORIALS.  449 

and  zeal  which  characterized  his  career  as  a  soldier.  He 
was  "instant  in  season  and  out  of  season,"  always  "do- 
ing with  his  might  whatever  his  hands  found  to  do."  In 
carrying  on  his  church  work,  he  found  the  experience 
and  training  of  his  army  life  to  be  a  great  help  to  him. 
As  a  soldier  he  had  learned  much  about  men,  had  seen 
the  value  of  organization  and  discipline,  and  by  associa- 
tion with  his  comrades  had  discovered  how  best  to  reach 
men's  hearts,  to  touch  and  arouse  their  better  natures, 
and  thus  to  influence  them  for  good.  For  many  years 
his  wife  was  a  great  help  to  him  in  his  chosen  work,  but 
in  1889  she  was  called  to  her  eternal  home,  from  which 
time  her  husband  toiled  on  alone,  silently  and  uncom- 
plainingly bearing  the  burden  of  his  sad  bereavement. 

As  a  man  Colonel  Lewis  was  honest  and  true,  and 
ever  loyal  to  the  right.  He  fully  recognized  the  nobility 
of  his  own  nature,  and  respected  himself  too  much  to  do 
a  mean  or  dishonest  thing.  In  mingling  with  his  fellows 
he  always  labored  to  show  himself  noble-hearted,  con- 
trolled only  by  praiseworthy  motives,  inspired  only  by 
the  most  lofty  ideals,  and  led  onward  and  upward  only 
by  the  highest  purposes.  He  lived  a  noble  life,  and 
those  who  knew  him  best  bear  the  strongest  testimony 
to  the  gentleness  of  his  spirit,  the  purity  of  his  soul  and 
the  lofty  mold  of  his  character. 

As  a  citizen  he  was  interested  in  all  questions  of 
public  importance  and  in  every  movement  which  was 
calculated  to  promote  the  welfare  of  humanity.  He 
firmly  believed  in  the  general  doctrine  of  "the  Father- 
hood of  God  and  the  Brotherhood  of  Men,"  and  he  felt 
that  he  was  in  the  world  to  prevail  upon  men  to  make 
this  doctrine  a  part  of  their  ever)7-day  life  both  in  theory 
and  practice.  As  he  recognized  all  men  as  his  brethren,, 
his  aim  was  to  do  good  to  all  men  as  he  had  opportunity. 


45O  MEMORIALS. 

He  lived  to  lighten  the  burden  of  human  sorrow,  to  bring 
cheer  and  comfort  to  the  afflicted,  and  to  make  human 
hearts  more  loving  and  happy.  Love  was  the  one  con- 
trolling sentiment  of  his  being,  dominating  his  entire  life, 
inspiring  his  sour  with  the  loftiest  purpose,  kindling  his 
mind  to  the  noblest  thought  and  leading  him  to  the 
greatest  self-sacrifice  for  the  good  of  others.  Dominated 
by  this  sentiment,  his  life  was  such  that  all  who  knew 
him  trusted,  respected,  honored  and  loved  him.  The 
doubting  resorted  to  him  for  counsel,  the  sorrowing  for 
sympathy,  and  the  troubled  for  help.  He  became  widely 
known  as  a  reliable  and  trustworthy  man,  and  his  ability, 
efficiency,  and  high  Christian  character  were  recognized 
in  many  flattering  ways.  Some  years  prior  to  his  death 
he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Black- 
burn University,  and  for  many  years  he  was  a  leading 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Knox  College.  In 
1873  he  was  sent  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Estab- 
lished Church  of  Scotland  as  a  delegate  from  the  Presby- 
terian General  Assembly  of  the  United  States,  and  on 
several  different  occasions  he  was  a  regularly  chosen 
delegate  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  of  this  country.  In  1878  President  Hayes  ap- 
pointed him  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  to  the 
Military  Academy  at  West  Point,  where,  on  behalf  of 
the  Board,  he  delivered  the  address  to  the  graduating 
class,  and  in  1899  President  McKinley  honored  him  by 
appointing  him  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  to  the 
Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis.  Thus  trusted,  respected 
and  honored,  his  record  as  a  citizen  is  as  worthy  of  praise 
as  his  record  as  a  soldier. 

It  was  because  Colonel  Lewis  so  fully  recognized  his 
obligations  as  a  citizen  that  he  became  such  an  ardent 
patriot.  He  loved  his  country  with  a  deep,  fervent  and 


MEMORIALS.  451 

abiding  love.  He  believed  there  were  times  when  a  man 
was  called  upon  to  sacrifice  even  his  life  for  the  good  of 
his  country.  Believing  this,  he  entered  the  army  and 
faced  death  upon  many  a  battlefield.  But  while  believ- 
ing that  his  country  was  worth  dying  for,  he  also  believed 
it  was  worth  living  for.  He  felt  that  peace  had  need  of 
patriotism  as  well  as  war,  and  while  he  thought  it  a  noble 
thing  to  die  for  one's  country  upon  the  field  of  deadly 
conflict,  he  felt  that  it  was  a  nobler  thing  to  live  for  one's 
country  in  the  quiet  time  of  peace,  provided  one  so  lived 
that,  by  word  and  deed,  he  made  his  country  the  more 
worthy  to  die  for.  He  accorded  high  honor  to  the  citizen 
who  went  out  to  fight  his  country's  enemies,  but  he  ac- 
corded an  equal,  or  a  higher  honor,  to  the  citizen  who, 
in  the  every-day  walks  of  life,  lived  to  make  his  country 
strong  and  resolute  in  all  that  is  noble  and  just.  In  his 
estimation  there  was  a  lofty  patriotism  in  all  generous, 
helpful,  honest  and  unselfish  action.  He  thought  it  not 
only  patriotic,  but  heroic,  to  uphold  the  right,  to  stand 
by  the  weak  against  the  strong,  to  work  for  an  honest 
and  pure  ballot,  to  fight  wrong  in  its  every  form,  and  to 
labor  in  the  home,  the  school,  the  church,  or  in  any  other 
place  where  duty  called,  to  form  and  develop  a  citizen- 
ship that  would  be  true  to  liberty,  justice  and  right  at 
all  times.  With  such  ideas  he  felt  that  he  was  just  as 
true  and  loyal  a  patriot  when  he  was  preaching  the  gospel 
of  peace  and  good  will  among  men,  explaining  the  doc- 
trine of -brotherly  love  to  his  people,  helping 'the  poor 
and  needy,  administering  to  the  wants  of  the  sick,  ex- 
tending sympathy  to  the  afflicted  and  laboring  to  sweeten, 
brighten  and  uplift  human  life  about  him,  as  he  was  when 
facing  the  enemy's  bullets  upon  the  field  of  battle.  He 
believed  that  in  working  for  humanity  he  was  working 
for  his  country,  and  that  whenever  he  made  a  human  life 


452  MEMORIALS. 

better  he  was  doing  something  for  his  country's  good. 
This  was  the  patriotism  which  controlled  him  at  all  times 
and  led  him  to  labor  so  diligently  and  faithfully,  both  in 
war  and  peace,  to  defend  the  right  and  to  awaken  a  love 
of  truth  and  purity  in  the  hearts  of  the  people. 

But  Colonel  Lewis  was  best  known  as  a  minister  of 
the  Gospel  of  Christ.  He  chose  the  ministry  for  his  life 
work  because  he  felt  that  in  such  calling  he  could  ac- 
complish more  good  for  humanity  than  in  any  other. 
His  ability  was  such  that  he  would  have  won  success  in 
almost  any  calling.  Had  he  continued  as  a  teacher,  he 
would  have  become  a  prominent  educator.  Had  he  en- 
tered upon  the  practice  of  medicine,  he  would  have  won 
his  way  to  the  front  rank  of  his  profession.  Had  he  de- 
voted his  life  to  the  practice  of  law,  he  would  have  been 
one  of  the  most  prominent  lawyers  at  the  bar.  Had  he 
turned  his  attention  to  politics,  he  would  have  been  a 
leader  in  both  State  and  Nation.  But  he  was  content  to 
serve  his  day  and  generation  simply  as  a  minister  in  the 
Christian  Church,  where  he  found  a  field  which  was  not 
only  congenial  to  his  taste,  but  which  called  into  active 
use  all  of  his  great  powers  of  both  mind  and  heart. 
Colonel  Lewis  was  emphatically  a  preacher  of  righteous- 
ness. He  preached  only  what  he  believed,  and  practiced 
what  he  preached.  His  daily  life  bore  witness  that  he 
applied  to  his  own  actions  the  same  rule  which  he  laid 
down  for  others.  The  gospel  which  he  taught  was  the 
gospel  of  love.  He  was  not  a  slave  to  any  mere  church 
tradition,  nor  was  he  chained  down  blindly  to  any  church 
creed.  He  recognized  but  one  religion:  "  To  visit  the 
fatherless  and  widows  in  their  affliction  and  to  keep  him- 
self unspotted  from  the  world."  Benevolence,  kindly 
sympathy,  loving  helpfulness  and  purity  of  life — these 
were  the  prominent  articles  of  his  religious  creed,  and 


MEMORIALS.  453 

wherever  he  found  a  person  who  subscribed  to  these 
articles  in  his  theory  and  practice,  he  recognized  him  as 
a  Christian  friend  and  brother.  His  broad,  catholic 
spirit  won  for  him  the  friendship  of  all  who  knew  him, 
whether  in  or  outside  of  the  church.  In  the  performance 
of  his  ministerial  duties  he  was  a  faithful,  energetic  and 
tireless  worker.  As  a  pastor  his  labors  were  never  ended. 
The  poor,  the  suffering,  the  bereaved,  all  found  in  him  a 
helper,  a  sympathizer  and  a  friend.  In  all  fields  of 
Christian  activity  he  never  failed  to  obey  the  call  of 
duty,  no  matter  how  great  the  labor  of  sacrifice.  With 
his  work  thus  faithfully  done,  he  approached  the  end  of 
his  earthly  life,  fully  prepared  for  the  last  great  change. 
Feeling  that  he  had  done  the  best  that  he  could  do,  he 
contemplated  death  without  a  regret  or  a  fear.  A  few 
hours  before  his  departure  a  friend  said  to  him:  ' '  Brother 
Lewis,  they  tell  me  that  the  end  is  near,"  but  the  words 
caused  him  no  uneasiness,  for  he  knew  that  the  same 
Almighty  Friend  who  had  guided  and  protected  him  for 
so  many  years  would  be  with  him  in  this  last  trying  hour. 
And  finally,  with  words  of  Scripture  and  Christian  song 
upon  his  lips,  his  spirit  quietly  passed  to  its  eternal  home, 
As  we  contemplate  the  life  of  such  a  man,  we  see 
how  grandly  noble,  true,  unselfish  and  helpful  to  others 
a  human  life  can  be  made,  and  as  we  contemplate  such 
a  departure  from  earth,  we  come  to  realize  the  more 
fully  that— 

"  There  is  no  death  !    What  seems  so  is  transition; 

This  life  of  mortal  breath 
Is  but  a  suburb  of  the  life  elysian 
Whose  portal  we  call  death." 

PHILIP  C.   HAYES, 
ROBERT  W.    MCCLAUGHRY, 

JAMES  G.   ELWOOD, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  ROYAL  DAVIS. 

Major    Third    Rhode   Island    Cavalry,      United    States    Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  November  23,  1899. 

edPANION  George  Royal  Davis  was  born  at  Three 
Rivers,  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  on  the  3rd  day  of 
January,  1840.  His  father  and  his  paternal  grandfather 
were  both  named  Benjamin,  and  his  great-grandfather, 
Craft  Davis,  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Davis  of  Oxford, 
Massachusetts. 

This  branch  of  the  Davis  family  were  of  Welsh  stock, 
and  the  founders  of  the  family  in  America  were  settled 
in  Massachusetts  Colony  soon  after  it  was  established  as 
a  Province  of  Great  Britain. 

His  mother's  family  were  Quakers,  and  his  mother, 
Cordelia  Buffington,  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Royal 

454 


MEMORIALS.  455 

Buffington,  who  was  distinguished  as  a  leader  in  the 
Society  of  Friends  during  the  early  struggles  of  that  sect 
in  America. 

Benjamin  Davis,  the  father  of  George  Royal  Davis, 
removed  from  Three  Rivers  to  the  town  of  Ware,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1842,  where  the  family  resided  until  1852, 
during  which  time  George  attended  the  common  schools 
of  Ware,  and  began  his  early  education  at  that  place. 

His  father  next  moved  to  Indian  Orchard,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  owned  and  operated  a  woolen  mill, 
and  where  young  George  took  his  first  lessons  in  the 
actual  experience  of  the  business  affairs  of  life. 

While  yet  a  lad  he  became  Captain  of  what  was  then 
known  as  a  Fire  Brigade  in  Indian  Orchard,  an  organiza- 
tion which  at  one  time  took  the  first  prize  for  efficiency 
at  an  exhibition  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Thus 
early  did  young  Davis  indicate  his  capability  for  com- 
manding and  influencing  men. 

While  the  family  still  resided  at  Indian  Orchard  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the  Academy  at  Moravia, 
New  York,  where  he  graduated  with  honors  in  1855. 
His  father's  woolen  mills  having  been  destroyed  by  fire 
during  that  year,  the  family  returned  to  and  became 
residents  of  Ware  again,  and  during  the  years  1858  and 
l&59  young  Davis  attended  Williston  Seminary  at  East 
Hampton,  Massachusetts,  where  he  had  for  classmates 
and  fellow  students  the  Honorable  William  C.  Whitney, 
late  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and  the  Honorable  John  M. 
Hall,  now  President  of  the  New  York  &  New  Haven 
Railroad  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

While  at  Williston  young  Davis  showed  great  pro- 
ficiency as  a  student,  and  was  President  of  the  Adelphi 
Literary  Society  connected  with  the  Seminary.  It  was 
there  as  an  ambitious  student  that  he  met  personally  and 


456  MEMORIALS. 

listened  to  the  teachings  of  the  most  distinguished  men 
in  New  England  of  that  day.  During  his  career  as  a 
student  there  he  delivered  an  oration  entitled  "No  Ex- 
cellence Without  Great  Labor,"  a  theme  which  seems 
to  have  impressed  him  greatly  and  to  have  become  the 
guiding  principle  of  his  career. 

After  finishing  the  course  of  study  at  Williston  he 
entered  his  father's  store  in  Ware,  and  continued  there 
as  a  clerk  until  the  summer  of  1862. 

Companion  Davis  was  descended  from  patriotic 
ancestry,  and  with  fidelity  to  inherited  privileges  it  was 
natural  for  him  to  become  a  soldier  in  the  Army  of  the 
Union.  This  he  did  sometime  during  the  summer  of 
1862.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier,  was  elected  by 
his  comrades  to  be  their  Commander  and  was  mustered 
in  as  Captain  of  Company  H,  Eighth  Massachusetts  In- 
fantry on  October  30,  1862.  He  continued  with  that 
regiment  and  in  command  of  his  company  until  the  7th 
day  of  August,  1863,  when  the  Eighth  Massachusetts 
was  mustered  out  by  reason  of  the  expiration  of  the  term 
of  its  enlistment.  The  military  service  of  that  regiment 
was  in  the  Eighteenth  Corps  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac, 
and  during  the  period  of  that  service  young  Davis  ex- 
hibited unusual  military  capacity  and  skill,  and  was 
justly  regarded  as  an  officer  and  soldier  of  special  merit. 

On  his  return  to  Massachusetts  he  immediately 
undertook  the  organization  of  another  command,  and 
having  enlisted  a  company  sought  to  have  it  mustered 
into  the  Second  Massachusetts  Light  Artillery,  but  ow- 
ing to  the  fact  that  no  more  Light  Artillery  at  that  time 
could  be  accepted  by  the  War  Department,  and  becom- 
ing impatient  of  the  delay,  Davis  took  the  men  whom  he 
had  then  enlisted  to  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  where  he 
was  again  mustered  into  the  service  as  Captain  of  the 


MEMORIALS.  457 

Third  Rhode  Island  Cavalry.  This  regiment  was  im- 
mediately sent  to  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  and  con- 
tinued in  the  service  there  until  subsequent  to  the  close 
of  the  war  in  1865.  The  sterling  military  qualities  of 
our  deceased  Companion  were  soon  recognized  and  he 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  and  mustered  in 
December  17,  1863,  and  held  that  rank  until  August, 
1865,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged  on  tender  of 
his  resignation. 

The  Third  Rhode  Island  Cavalry  was  conspicuous 
for  its  efficiency  and  splendid  service  in  the  Department 
of  the  Gulf  during  the  entire  period  of  its  service  there. 

Companion  Davis  had  many  of  the  attributes  of  a 
great  soldier.'  He  was  quick  to  comprehend  and  apply 
the  rules  of  the  art  of  war.  His  personality  was  one  of 
command.  He  knew  what  ought  to  be  done  in  any 
exigency,  and  was  pre-eminently  capable  of  doing  or 
directing  to  be  done  those  things  which  make  for  success 
in  the  organization,  discipline  and  use  of  military  force. 
With  a  chivalric  spirit  he  possessed  that  quality  known 
to  the  soldier  as  valor,  which  made  him  conspicuous 
in  any  command.  In  the  disastrous  Red  River  Cam- 
paign and  in  the  unfortunate  engagement  at  Mansfield, 
Major  Davis  displayed  unusual  gallantry  and  tact.  It 
fell  to  the  fortune  of  his  regiment,  of  which  he  was  then 
in  command,  to  become  the  rear  guard  in  the  retreat  of 
General  Banks's  Army  from  that  wretched  and  most  dis- 
astrous campaign.  But  the  Third  Rhode  Island  Cavalry 
and  its  commanding  officer  were  conspicuous  for  gallantry 
and  the  efficient  performance  of  the  trying  duties  as- 
signed them. 

Subsequent  to  that  time  our  Companion  served  in 
many  different  capacities,  and  as  the  ranking  officer  was 
frequently  in  command  of  military  posts  in  Louisiana. 


MEMORIALS. 

From  February,  1865,  until  the  latter  part  of  April 
in  that  year,  he  served  as  President  of  the  Military  Com- 
mission sitting  at  Thibodeaux,  Louisiana,  where  his  high 
sense  of  justice  and  undoubted  ability  enabled  him  to 
discharge  such  duties  as  came  to  a  tribunal  of  that 
character  with  signal  success. 

After  he  had  resigned  from  the  army  Major  Davis 
became  Chief  Clerk  to  the  Quartermaster  on  General 
Sheridan's  Staff,  and  on  the  plains  and  in  the  Indian 
campaigns  and  afterwards  in  the  city  of  Chicago  he 
continued  in  that  important  position  until  1871  when  he 
severed  his  connection  with  army  life  and  became  the 
general  financial  agent  in  Chicago  of  Eastern  Insurance 
Companies. 

During  his  early  business  career  in  this  city  our 
Companion  was  largely  concerned  in  and  responsible  for 
the  organization  of  the  First  Illinois  Infantry,  of  which 
regiment,  after  the  retirement  of  General  A.  C.  McClurg, 
he  became  Colonel,  and  it  was  the  military  talent  and 
organizing  ability  of  our  deceased  Companion  which 
gave  to  that  regiment  of  the  National  Guard  the  high 
character  and  standing  which  it  has  ever  since  retained 
as  one  of  the  most  efficient  and  well  disciplined  com- 
mands connected  with  the  National  Guard. 

In  civil  life  Companion  Davis  won  unusual  and  well 
merited  distinction.  He  was  nominated  for  Congress 
from  the  then  Third  Congressional  District  in  1876,  but 
at  the  election  was  defeated  by  a  few  votes  only,  his  op- 
ponent being  the  late  Carter  H.  Harrison.  He  was 
three  times  afterwards  nominated  and  elected  to  a  seat 
in  Congress,  namely:  in  1878,  1880  and  1882.  His 
career  in  Congress  was  in  the  highest  degree  creditable 
to  himself,  to  his  constituency  and  to  the  nation.  He 
was  recognized  and  appreciated  for  his  wonderful  industry 


MEMORIALS.  459 

and  unusual  capacity  in  public  affairs.  In  politics  his 
influence  was  always  felt  in  the  deliberations  of  his 
party,  and  his  wise  counsel  and  political  foresight  gave 
him  an  enviable  reputation  among  those  whose  ambition 
led  them  into  the  race  for  political  honors. 

In  the  campaign  of  1886  Companion  Davis  was 
nominated  by  the  Republican  party  and  elected  County 
Treasurer  of  Cook  County,  which  office  he  held  for  four 
years,  and  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  the  duties  of  that 
great  office  he  received  and  was  freely  accorded  the  com- 
mendation of  all  classes  of  our  citizens  without  respect 
to  clique  or  party  affiliations.  It  was  while  he  was  the 
incumbent  of  that  office  that  the  scheme  for  locating  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago  was  begun. 
And  it  was  natural  to  a  man  with  such  ambitions  and 
such  unusual  capabilities  for  attaining  great  ends  that  he 
should  enlist  at  once  heartily  and  without  reserve  with 
all  of  his  powers  and  influence  for  the  accomplishment 
of  such  a  great  enterprise.  This  Companion  Davis  did 
with  all  his  heart  and  with  all  his  strength.  The  loca- 
tion of  that  Exposition  in  this  city  was  due  as  much  to 
him  as  to  any  other  one  man.  Indeed  it  is  just  to  his 
memory  to  say  that  no  one  man  was  able  to  bring,  or 
did  bring,  as  much  influence  and  such  forcible  arguments 
to  secure  the  passage  of  the  Act  of  Congress  locating  the 
Exposition  at  Chicago  as  did  our  late  Companion.  When 
the  Commission  had  been  appointed  and  the  work  of 
organization  was  at  hand  it  was  not  only  natural  but 
logical  that  George  R.  Davis  should  be  put  in  the  place 
of  leader  and  in  a  position  to  direct  the  many  diverse  in- 
terests of  such  an  undertaking.  He  was  accordingly 
made  Director  General  of  the  Exposition  and  at  once 
took  hold  of  the  work  of  organization  and  of  preparation, 
and  pursued  it  with  an  energy  and  capacity  which  dis- 


460  MEMORIALS. 

closed  to  his  friends  the  fact  that  he  possessed  those 
faculties  of  organization  and  executive  abilities  which 
had  not  been  dreamed  of  even  by  those  most  intimate 
with  him. 

His  career  as  Director  General  is  a  matter  of  history 
in  which  his  name  will  stand  along  with  that  of  the  late 
John  Wellborn  Root,  as  one  of  the  two  most  efficient 
characters  who  had  any  connection  whatever  with  that 
most  famous  of  all  international  expositions. 

As  a  personality  Companion  Davis  was  distinguished. 
He  would  attract  marked  attention  among  ten  thousand 
men  as  one  of  great  individuality  and  force  of  character. 
His  figure  was  commanding.  He  moved  among  men 
fearlessly,  and  while  he  was  aggressive  and  incisive,  he 
was  cordial  without  being  effusive.  His  intercourse  with 
his  associates  and  friends,  and  with  the  public  as  well, 
was  always  frank,  open  and  direct.  He  was  absolutely 
free  from  cant  or  hypocrisy.  His  friends  felt  the  warmth 
and  loyalty  of  his  nature,  and  his  adversaries  respected 
his  resolute  but  honest  purpose. 

Companion  Davis  married  July  25,  1867,  Miss  Ger- 
trude Schulin,  a  most  charming  and  accomplished  young 
lady  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana.  The  domestic  life  of 
these  two  people  has  been  worthy  of  all  praise.  There 
have  been  born  to  them  six  children,  four  daughters  and 
two  sons.  The  oldest  of  the  sons — Mr.  Ben  Davis — is  a 
graduate  of  Yale  University  and  also  of  Harvard  Law 
School,  and  is  at  present  one  of  the  Assistant  United 
States  District  Attorneys  for  the  Northern  District  of 
Illinois. 

Companion  Davis  fell  when  he  had  just  passed  the 
full  meridian  of  life,  but  he  left  behind  him  a  record  and 
a  name  of  which  the  relatives,  friends  and  Companions 
of  any  soldier  may  be  justly  proud,  and  which  all  good 


MEMORIALS.  461 

citizens  may  justly  honor  with  the  benediction  "Well 
done,  good  and  faithful  servant." 

His  last  day  on  earth  was  November  23,  1899.  His 
Companions  remember  him  for  his  courage  and  fidelity, 
for  his  loyalty  to  his  country  and  its  flag,  for  his  high 
character  as  a  man  and  for  his  worth  as  a  citizen  whose 
many  good  deeds  are  worthy  of  emulation. 

THOMAS  B.   BRYAN, 
WILLIAM   L.   B.   JENNEY, 
SIMEON  H.   CRANE, 

Committee. 


PETER  HAND. 

Captain  Twenty-fourth  Illinois  Infantry,   United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at   Chicago,  Illinois,   November  23,   i8gq. 

*7YiFTER  several  years  of  severe  suffering  from  chronic 
f\  disease  our  Companion  Peter  Hand  departed  this 
^s-"  life  on  the  23rd  day  of  November,  1899,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-four  years.  He  came  to  this  city  with  his 
parents  in  the  year  1852,  when  seventeen  years  of  age, 
and  resided  here  ever  since.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War  he  was  one  of  the  vast  host  of  young  Germans  who, 
having  warmly  advocated  the  election  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln for  the  Presidency  in  the  preceding  year,  at  once 
sprang  to  arms  in  defense  of  the  country.  There  were 
in  all  four  sons  under  his  father's  roof  and  all  of  them 
responded  bravely  at  the  very  first  call  for  volunteers. 

462 


MEMORIALS.  463 

Peter  Hand's  military  service  extended  from  the  iQth  of 
April,  1 86 1,  to  the  6th  of  August,  1864,  and  was  of  the 
most  invaluable  character.  Before  the  war  he  had  made 
himself  perfectly  proficient  in  the  use  of  arms  and  hence 
he  soon  proved  himself  to  be  one  of  the  best  drill-masters 
in  the  Western  army.  He  was  absolutely  fearless  in 
battle  and  distinguished  himself  in  every  engagement  in 
which  his  regiment  took  part.  Severely  wounded  at  Per- 
ryville  he  returned  to  his  command  before  he  had  fully 
recovered  and  remained  in  the  field  to  the  last  day  of 
his  term.  As  senior  Captain  the  command  of  his  regi- 
ment, the  Twenty-fourth  Illinois  Volunteers,  devolved 
upon  him  in  the  spring  of  1864,  and  he  acquitted  himself 
so  well  that  General  John  M.  Palmer,  the  commander  of 
the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps,  bestowed  upon  him  the 
highest  encomiums. 

In  civil  life  Captain  Peter  Hand  enjoyed  the  esteem 
of  all  who  knew  him.  He  was  of  a  gentle  and  cheerful 
disposition,  of  spotless  reputation,  scrupulously  upright 
and  in  all  his  business  transactions  the  very  soul  of 
honor. 

He  leaves  a  loving  wife  and  two  children  who  mourn 
with  us  and  a  host  of  friends  his  early  death  and  to  whom 
we  extend  our  sincere  condolence  in  their  great  bereave- 
ment. 

WILLIAM  VOCKE, 
GEORGE  MASON, 
JOHN  MCARTHUR, 

Committee. 


LEWIS   LUCAS   TROY. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Ninth  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  November  77,  1899. 

I  HIS  Commandery  is  again  called  upon  to  mourn  the 
i.     demise  of  one  of  its  Companions,  the  late  Lieuten- 
ant Lewis  Lucas  Troy,  who  died  November  17,  1899,  of 
neuralgia  of  the  heart,  after  a  brief  illness  at  his  home, 
at  882  West  Monroe  street,  in  this  city. 

Companion  Troy  was  born  in  Bavaria,  Germany,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1839.  At  the  age  of  seven  years  he  came  to  this 
country,  locating  in  Cincinnati,  where  a  brother  was  re- 
siding. He  learned  the  trades  of  jeweler  and  blacksmith, 
which  he  followed  alternately,  and  worked  throughout 
the  Western  States,  finally  locating  in  Aledo,  Illinois, 
where  he  opened  a  general  merchandise  store,  in  which 

464 


MEMORIALS.  465 

he  was  doing  a  prosperous  business  when  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion  began. 

Companion  Troy  entered  the  service  as  a  private  in 
Company  D,  Ninth  Illinois  Infantry,  April  20,  1861,  en- 
listing for  ninety  days  service.  At  the  expiration  of  this 
service  he  re-enlisted  in  Company  E,  Ninth  Illinois  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  in  which  company  he  was  appointed  a 
Sergeant.  Re-enlisting  as  a  veteran  March  31,  1864,  he 
was  discharged  to  accept  promotion  and  was  mustered 
as  First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant,  Ninth  Illinois  Veteran 
Mounted  Infantry,  October  20,  1864,  to  rank  from  August 
20,  1864.  He  was  mustered  out  with  his  regiment  July 
9,  1865. 

During  his  three  months  service,  Companion  Troy's 
regiment  was  assigned  to  General  Prentiss's  Brigade,  at 
Cairo,  Illinois.  He  served  with  his  regiment  in  the  cam- 
paigns against  Fort  Henry  and  Fort  Donelson,  Pittsburg 
Landing,  Shiloh  and  Corinth,  Mississippi,  in  all  of  which 
battles  he  participated.  The  regiment  was  mounted 
after  the  battle  of  Corinth,  and  was  attached  to  the  left 
wing  of  the  Sixteenth  Army  Corps  under  General  G.  M. 
Dodge.  He  then  took  part  in  the  campaign  against 
Atlanta  and  the  battles  before  that  city.  In  the  March 
to  the  Sea,  his  regiment  acted  as  advance  guard  for  the 
Fourteenth  and  Twentieth  Army  Corps;  and  on  the  march 
from  Atlanta  to  Goldsborough  it  was  attached  to  the 
Seventeenth  Army  Corps,  acting  as  advance  guard  and 
had  from  one  to  four  brushes  with  the  enemy  daily. 
After  Johnston's  surrender,  he  marched  with  his  regiment 
to  Washington,  and  took  part  in  the  grand  review;  he 
then  proceeded  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  where  the  regi- 
ment was  mustered  out. 

Companion  Troy  served  with  valor  and  distinction 
throughout  the  entire  war,  and  his  commission  was  given 
him  as  a  reward  for  his  bravery  in  action. 


466  MEMORIALS. 

Returning  to  Aledo,  Illinois,  he  resumed  commercial 
life,  and  remained  in  business  at  that  place  until  1869, 
when,  through  the  efforts  of  the  late  Senator  John  A. 
Logan,  he  was  appointed  a  railway  postal  clerk.  Upon 
his  entrance  into  the  postal  service  he  was  assigned  to 
duty  on  the  Galva  and  Keithsburg  line.  His  adaptability 
for  the  service  soon  secured  his  transfer  to  the  more  im- 
portant line,  the  Chicago  and  Burlington  Railway  Post- 
office,  and  here  his  talents  found  a  broader  field.  In 
1874  his  efficiency  was  again  recognized  by  his  transfer 
to  the  office  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  Sixth  Division, 
Railway  Mail  Service,  in  Chicago.  In  1882  he  was  pro- 
moted to  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Division,  and  to  the  Super- 
intendency  of  the  Division  October  4,  1890. 

The  record  of  Companion  Troy  as  a  postal  official 
was  a  brilliant  one.  With  extraordinary  powers  of  con- 
centration, marvelous  ability  to  grasp  details,  coupled 
with  a  powerful  and  retentive  memory,  he  was  particu- 
larly and  peculiarly  adapted  to  the  responsible  trust  so 
long  successfully  administered.  His  strong  individuality 
impressed  itself  upon  the  service,  and  his  influence  upon 
its  affairs  must  be  felt  for  years  to  come.  By  his 
methodical  system  he  won  the  confidence  of  the  officials 
at  Washington  so  completely  that  he  was  considered  one 
of  the  ablest  men  in  the  service.  Devoted  to  the  best 
interests  of  the  Railway  Mail  Service,  its  progress  and 
improvement,  always  ready  to  sacrifice  himself  to  pro- 
mote its  usefulness,  absolutely  unselfish  in  his  devotion 
to  duty,  his  life  stands  as  a  remarkable  example  of  a 
public  servant. 

Lieutenant  Troy  was  elected  a  Companion  of  the 
First  Class  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of 
the  United  States  through  the  Commandery  of  the  State 
of  Illinois,  February  13,  1890.  He  was  also  a  member 


MEMORIALS.  467 

of  U.  S.  Grant  Post  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic; 
Apollo  Commandery,  Knights  Templar;  Ancient  Order 
United  Workmen,  in  which  he  was  a  Past  Grand  and 
Past  Supreme  Master;  the  National  Union,  and  the  United 
States  Railway  Mail  Service  Mutual  Aid  Association. 

Several  years  ago  Companion  Troy,  with  twenty 
picked  men  from  the  Railway  Mail  Service,  was  placed 
in  charge  of  a  special  train  which  conveyed  $20,000,000 
in  gold  from  San  Francisco  to  New  York  City. 

Twenty-nine  years  ago  Companion  Troy  was  married 
to  Emma  Miles,  daughter  of  John  W.  Miles,  of  Aledo, 
who  was  Quartermaster  of  the  Seventeenth  Illinois  In- 
fantry. Besides  his  widow,  he  is  survived  by  two  sons, 
Ernest  G.  and  Harry  L.  Troy,  who  reside  in  Chicago;  a 
sister,  Mrs.  Henry  Stix,  and  a  brother,  Ernest  Troy,  of 
Cincinnati. 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
and  Apollo  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  the  funeral 
services  were  held  November  20,  1899,  at  the  late  home 
of  the  deceased,  and  interment  took  place  at  Rose  Hill. 

The  sympathy  of  the  Commandery  is  extended  to  the 
family  of  the  deceased,  and  we  recommend  that  this 
memorial  be  inscribed  upon  the  records  of  this  Com- 
mandery, and  that  copies  be  furnished  the  family  of  our 
late  Companion. 

MAURICE  J.   McGRATH, 
JAMES  E.   STUART, 
LEROY  T.   STEWARD, 

Committee. 


FRANCIS  JULIUS  FITZWILLIAM. 

First  Lieutenant   Thirty-third  Ohio  Infantry,  United  States  Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  December  23,  1899. 

OUR  late  Companion,  Francis  Julius  Fitzwilliam,  was 
born  in  Bainbridge,  Ohio,  July  n,   1840,  and  died 
in  Chicago,  Illinois,  December  23,   1899.      He  at- 
tended the  District    School    and    afterward    the   Union 
School  of  the  village,  and  thus  prepared  himself  for  a 
college  course,   upon  which  he  entered  in    1859  at  the 
Ohio  Wesleyan  University  at  Delaware,  Ohio. 

Like  multitudes  of  other  young  men,  he  left  the  col- 
lege in  1 86 1  to  enter  upon  the  more  arduous  duties  of  a 
soldier,  enlisting  in,  and  being  mustered  as  First  Lieu- 
tenant of  Company  G,  Thirty-third  Regiment  of  Ohio 
Volunteer  Infantry,  commanded  by  Colonel  Sill. 

468 


MEMORIALS.  469 

During  the  winter  of  1860— 6 1  and  the  spring  of  1861 
he  was  a  member  of  the  "  Olentangy  Grays,  "  a  volunteer 
organization  made  up  of  college  students  at  Delaware, 
Ohio,  of  which  the  writer  was  a  member,  organized  to 
drill  and  prepare  for  the  more  arduous  duties  of  soldier 
life  that  came  to  nearly  all  the  members  later  on.  Our 
Companion  continued  to  hold  the  rank  of  First  Lieuten- 
ant of  Company  G,  until  honorably  discharged  October 
10,  1864,  having  served  his  full  period  of  enlistment  of 
three  years.  He  was  promoted  to  Captaincy  of  his  Com- 
pany, March  15,  1864,  but  declined  to  be  mustered  on 
his  commission  as  Captain,  as  that  would  bind  him  to 
the  service  for  another  period  of  "three  years  or  during 
the  war." 

Early  in  1862  the  Thirty-third  Ohio  Regiment  of  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  even  before  it  was  fully  equipped,  crossed 
the  Ohio  River  at  Maysville,  Kentucky,  and  joined  in  the 
memorable  Campaign  of  General  Nelson  against  Hum- 
phrey Marshall,  who  had  entered  Eastern  Kentucky 
through  the  gap  of  the  Cumberland  Mountains  and  was 
devastating  that  loyal  portion  of  the  State  with  fire  and 
sword.  The  regiment  marched  by  way  of  Flemingsburg 
to  Prestonburg  and  Piketon.  Colonel  James  A.  Garfield, 
then  commanding  the  Forty-second  Ohio,  landed  at  Cat- 
lettsburg,  Kentucky,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Big  Sandy  River, 
late  in  December,  1861,  and,  assuming  command  of  the 
troops  then  assembling  at  that  point,  proceeded  up  the 
river  into  the  mountains,  overtaking  and  defeating  Hum- 
phrey Marshall  at  Middle  Creek,  Kentucky.  January  10, 
1862,  Garfield's  command  was  part  of  General  Nelson's 
army,  and  the  two  commands  met  at  Prestonburg.  Hum- 
phrey Marshall  was  defeated  and  driven  out  of  Kentucky, 
soon  after  which  the  Thirty-third  Ohio  descended  the 
Big  Sandy  and  at  its  mouth  took  transports  down  the 


47°  MEMORIALS. 

Ohio  to  Louisville,  where  it  became  a  part  of  the  Division 
commanded  by  General  O.  M.  Mitchell's  Army  of  the 
Ohio. 

On  the  reorganization  of  the  army  the  Thirty-third 
Ohio  was  attached  to  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division, 
Fourteenth  Army  Corps,  and  so  remained,  we  believe,  up 
to  the  time  our  comrade  was  mustered  out  of  service  in 
October,  1864. 

If  time  would  permit  it,  it  would  be  pleasant  to  ac- 
company our  late  Companion  through  the  three  years  of 
arduous  service  which  he  rendered  as  a  volunteer  officer, 
but  it  would  involve  a  history  of  battles,  campaigns  and 
adventures  that  would  fill  a  volume.  We  can  only  men- 
tion in  succession  some  of  the  campaigns  and  battles  in 
which  he  participated: 

Bridgeport,  Alabama,  April  29,  1862;  Fort  McCook, 
Alabama,  August  30,  1862;  Perry ville,  October  8,  1862; 
Stone's  River,  December  31,  1862,  and  January  I  and  2, 
1863;  Hoover's  Gap,  Tennessee,  June  24,  1863;  Chicka- 
mauga,  September  19  and  20,  1863;  Lookout,  Novem- 
ber 24,  and  Missionary  Ridge,  November  25,  1863;  Rocky 
Faced  Ridge,  May  8;  Buzzard's  Roost,  May  9;  Dug  Gap, 
May  10;  Resaca,  May  13  to  16;  Cassville,  May  19  to  22; 
New  Hope  Church,  May  25;  Kenesaw  Mountain,  June  9; 
Peach  Tree  Creek,  July  20,  1864;  Siege  of  Atlanta,  from 
July  28  to  September  2,  1864,  and  Jonesboro,  Georgia, 
September  i,  1864. 

In  all  these  important  battles  and  campaigns  he  was 
with  his  regiment,  took  an  active  part,  obeyed  orders 
and  won  the  commendation  of  his  superiors  and  the  love 
and  esteem  of  his  companions  and  subordinates. 

Our  Companion,  after  he  removed  to  Chicago,  became 
a  member  of  Thomas  Post,  No.  5,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, and  in  accordance  with  the  request  of  the  Post, 


MEMORIALS.  4/1 

filed  a  brief  memorandum  giving  a  modest  account  of 
some  of  the  events  of  the  war  connected  with  his  own 
service,  from  which  I  have  been  permitted  to  copy  some 
extracts. 

"At  Sharpsburg,  Kentucky,  a  committee  of  handsome 
ladies  presented  the  regiment  with  its  first  flag,  having 
heard  in  advance  that  the  regiment  was  destitute  of  this 
important  emblem.  The  skirmishes  and  chasing  fights 
we  engaged  in  through  the  mountains  of  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky in  the  fall  and  winter  of  1861-2,  under  General 
Nelson,  are  not  mentioned  in  my  list  of  engagements,  as 
the  fights  did  not  take  on  the  dignity  of  battles,  but  the 
fact  that  men  were  killed  and  wounded  in  this  campaign 
made  it  memorable  to  us,  in  the  callow  days  of  our  inex- 
perience, by  the  longest  day's  marching  and  the  slimmest 
rations  in  all  our  service.  Incorporated  in  General  Buell's 
Army  of  the  Ohio,  General  O.  M.  Mitchell's  Division,  we 
made  that  incursion  into  Alabama,  capturing  Huntsville 
in  April,  1862,  securing  control  of  the  Memphis  and 
Charleston  Railroad,  with  a  large  lot  of  rolling  stock, 
thus  cutting  off  recruits  to  Beauregard's  Army  at  Shiloh. 
In  movement  by  rail  under  General  Sill,  we  had  our  first 
battle  at  Bridgeport. 

"Some  fledgling  engineer  built  a  fort  on  a  hill  lean- 
ing toward  the  Tennessee  River  and  overlooking  the  road 
leading  out  from  the  Sequatchie  Valley.  This  fort  was 
named  McCook,  and  constituted  the  advanced  post  of 
General  Mitchell  toward  Chattanooga. 

"In  August  my  regiment  with  a  squadron  of  cavalry 
and  a  section  of  artillery  occupied  this  post  under  Colonel 
L.  A.  Harris.  First,  the  cavalry  was  taken  away,  later 
the  artillery  was  ordered  away,  and  finally  when  General 
Buell  had  gathered  his  forces  for  a  rapid  race  with  Gen- 
eral Bragg  for  Louisville,  Kentucky,  we  were  left  with 


4/2  MEMORIALS. 

orders  to  hold  this  untenable  fort.  On  August  3Oth,  just 
after  the  dinner  hour,  without  a  thought  of  an  enemy 
near,  suddenly  a  shell  from  a  gun  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  river  burst  in  our  midst.  Having  no  gun  to  reply, 
we  hurried  to  the  protection  of  the  upper  parapet  of  the 
fort,  but  on  the  outside,  as  the  interior  of  the  fort  was 
turned  toward  the  rebel  gunners.  Later  one  company, 
armed  with  Springfield  muskets,  was  thrown  into  rifle 
pits  constructed  on  the  river  bank,  and  another  company 
was  dispatched  up  the  river  road  to  a  point  where  the 
road  from  Jasper,  Tennessee,  comes  in.  It  was  a  merry 
game  for  the  rebel  gunners  until  our  riflemen  got  their 
range,  but  a  peril  menaced  us  from  General  Adams  at 
Jasper  with  his  troopers. 

"A  rain  storrn  came  on  as  the  sun  declined,  when 
Colonel  Harris  decided  to  get  out.  These  were  the  days 
when  every  regiment  had  wagons.  The  wagon  wheels 
were  muffled  with  tents  cut  up  for  the  purpose,  so  as  to 
move  without  noise  on  the  rocky  road. 

"  We  captured  a  citizen  as  he  neared  the  Jasper  road, 
who  gave  us  the  welcome  news  that  General  Adams  and 
staff  were  drunk  and  hilarious  that  rainy  night  at  the 
village  tavern. 

"But  we  had  to  march  night  and  day  to  catch  up 
with  the  army  on  its  way  to  Kentucky  in  race  with  Gen- 
eral Bragg.  At  Louisville  the  army  was  reorganized. 
I  was  detailed  in  the  Brigade  Staff  as  Aide  de  Camp,  and 
Acting  Assistant  Adjutant  General,  Colonel  Len  A.  Har- 
ris, of  the  Second  Ohio  Regiment,  commanding.  I  con- 
tinued in  this  relation  through  the  battles  of  Perryville 
and  Stone's  River.  At  Chattanooga,  I  with  my  Brigade 
had  the  unique  experience  of  participating  in  the  battle 
of  Lookout  Mountain  and  in  the  assault  on  Missionary 
Ridge,  the  next  day,  on  the  extreme  right  of  assaulting 


MEMORIALS.  473 

columns.  I  endured  the  Siege  of  Chattanooga,  when 
hard  bread  and  S.  B.  came  to  be  valued  and  appreciated 
as  they  never  had  been  before. 

"After  the  battle  of  Jonesboro,  about  the  time  our 
Division  was  preparing  to  march  back  to  Atlanta,  the 
enemy  were  active  with  their  annoyance.  I  was  sent 
with  two  companies  on  outpost  to  cover  the  movement. 
Before  I  could  post  my  guards,  dismounted  cavalry  in 
large  number  attempted  to  surround  us,  so  that  with 
difficulty  we  got  through  them.  The  Lieutenant  com- 
manding the  other  company,  among  others,  was  killed, 
but  we  carried  his  body  with  us  until  we  came  within 
supporting  distance  of  the  Reserve. 

"This  action  occupied  only  about  thirty  minutes,  but 
was  full  of  all  the  incidents  peculiar  to  a  great  battle. 
This  was  my  last  conflict,  as  I  was  soon  mustered  out  of 
service  with  many  other  comrades." 

Comrade  Fitzwilliam's  father  was  keeper  of  a  country 
store  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  was  sent  some  dis- 
tance from  home  to  aid  in  establishing  a  branch  store, 
and  proved  himself  quick  to  learn  and  useful  in  conduct- 
ing the  branch  store. 

Released  from  military  service  by  honorable  discharge 
he  decided  to  re-enter  mercantile  business.  He  came  to 
Bloomington,  Illinois,  in  1866,  and  entered  the  retail 
dry  goods  business  with  his  father,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Fitzwilliam  &  Sons. 

It  soon  became  the  largest  retail  dry  goods  establish- 
ment in  Central  Illinois,  and  later  a  branch  store  was 
established  at  Pontiac,  Illinois.  Of  this  large  business 
our  Companion  was  for  many  years  the  manager. 

He  married  Miss  Lucretia  Mott  Read,  of  New  Lon- 
don, Ohio,  in  1866,  and  from  this  union  there  were  born 
two  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  married, 


474  MEMORIALS. 

and  the  eldest  son  is  now  our  Companion,  taking  his 
father's  place  on  his  death  as  a  first-class  member  by 
inheritance. 

His  wife  died  in  April,  1893.  He  had  retired  from 
the  dry  goods  business  in  1892.  He  was  an  active,  lead- 
ing business  man  in  Bloomington  and  took  part  in  all 
public  enterprises  of  moment. 

Among  other  things  he  organized  the  National  Home 
Building  and  Loan  Association,  which  for  many  years 
was  remarkably  successful,  but,  like  other  similar  asso- 
ciations, it  suffered  greatly  from  the  depression  that  came 
to  real  estate  securities  everywhere  in  the  panic  of  1893. 

He  retired  from  the  Presidency  of  that  Association  in 
January,  1896.  On  June  23,  1896,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Sarah  E.  Raymond,  in  Boston,  and  about  April  i, 
1897,  removed  to  Chicago.  A  beautiful  home  was  pur- 
chased on  Vincennes  avenue,  where  he  and  his  estimable 
wife  collected  about  them  books,  works  of  art,  and  all 
those  luxuries  and  comforts  which  constitute  a  real 
American  home.  It  was  here  that  he  anticipated  spend- 
ing his  declining  years  in  comfort,  where  the  children 
and  grandchildren,  of  whom  there  were  several,  and 
friends  could  assemble  and  make  joyous  the  old  age  of 
the  Veteran,  but  alas  disease  came  in  1899  to  becloud 
the  horizon,  and  it  made  an  anxious  summer  for  our 
Companion  and  his  loving  wife.  The  disease  which  at- 
tacked him  was  not  regarded  dangerous  until  in  Decem- 
ber, when,  on  the  advice  of  his  physician,  he  went  to  the 
Chicago  Hospital  to  have  an  operation  performed.  The 
inception  of  the  operation  disclosed  a  condition  that  ren- 
dered any  operation  ineffectual,  and  he  gradually  grew 
worse  until  the  end  came  on  Saturday  before  Christmas. 

This  brave  soldier,  this  successful  business  man,  this 
loving  father,  this  good  citizen,  was  a  Christian  man  in 


MEMORIALS.  475 

the  truest  sense  of  the  word.  He  united  with  the  First 
Methodist  Church  in  Bloomington  some  time  early  in  the 
seventies,  became  and  was  Superintendent  for  fourteen 
years  of  a  Sabbath  School.  He  gave  liberally  and  freely 
to  the  church  and  to  charitable  objects,  but  never  osten- 
tatiously. He  founded  a  mission  down  near  the  railroad, 
and  in  honor  of  his  deceased  wife  named  it  "Lucretia 
Chapel." 

It  is  now  a  strong  organization  with  a  flourishing 
Sunday  School,  doing  much  good  among  the  laboring 
classes,  and  a  worthy  monument  to  the  memory  of  a 
practical  Christian  gentleman,  who  lived  religion,  in  his 
daily  life.  He  was  always  courteous,  genial,  pleasant, 
and  made  all  who  came  within  his  magnetic  influence 
feel  that  he  was  a  man  to  trust,  to  respect,  and  to  love. 

After  he  removed  to  Chicago  he  transferred  his  mem- 
bership from  William  T.  Sherman  Post,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  of  Bloomington,  to  Thomas  Post  No.  5,  of 
Chicago.  He  had  also  become  a  member  of  our  Com- 
mandery  and  he  rarely  missed  a  stated  meeting  of  the 
Loyal  Legion. 

After  his  death  a  simple  service  was  held  at  his  resi- 
dence on  December  26th,  and  his  remains  were  then 
taken  to  Bloomington,  Illinois,  and  a  public  funeral  was 
held  at  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  on  Decem- 
ber 27th,  which  was  attended  by  multitudes  of  his  old 
friends,  neighbors  and  comrades.  His  remains  were 
buried  in  beautiful  Evergreen  Cemetery  at  Bloomington, 
under  the  auspices  of  William  T.  Sherman  Post,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  and  with  the  beautiful  ritual  of 
the  Grand  Army. 

Reverend  Frost  Craft,  of  Decatur,  Illinois,  pronounced 
a  eulogy  at  the  church  service  in  Bloomington. 

And  so  our  soldier  Companion,  leaving  behind  him 


4/6  MEMORIALS. 

loving  ties  and  pleasant  memories,  has  entered  upon 
Eternal  Rest.  Peacefully,  honorably,  he  met,  and  dis- 
charged all  life's  duties  and  now  has  entered  that  dream- 
less sleep  which  the  din  of  war  and  clash  of  arms  can 
never  disturb.  Honored,  beloved,  and  sincerely  mourned 
by  all  who  knew  him. 

JOHN  B.   BAKER, 
JAMES  H.   DAVIDSON, 
HENRY  Fox,   SR.  , 

Committee. 


RICHARD  WATERMAN. 

First  Lieutenant  First  Rhode  Island  Cavalry,  United  States  Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Chicago,   Illinois,  January  6,   igoo. 

OUR  Commandery  has  lost  another  member,  and  again 
is  called  upon  to  offer  tribute  of  sorrow,  affection 
and  appreciation  for  a  Companion.      Lieutenant 
Richard  Waterman  departed  this  life  on  the  6th  day  of 
January,  Anno  Domini   1900,  at  his  home  in  Chicago, 
after  a  tedious  and  painful  illness,  endured  with  manly 
Christian  fortitude,   like  the  brave  soldier  he  long  ago 
proved  himself,  amid  the  stress  of  Civil  War. 

Richard  Waterman  was  born  on  the  2Oth  day  of 
January,  1841,  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island;  he  was  a 
lineal  descendant  of  Richard  Waterman,  who  helped 
Roger  Williams  to  found  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  and 

477 


478  MEMORIALS. 

who  settled  at  Providence,  where,  ever  since,  his  direct 
descendants  have  been  well  known  and  respected,  the 
name  being  perpetuated  to  memory  in  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal thoroughfares  of  that  city. 

On  his  mother's  side,  also,  Lieutenant  Waterman  was 
allied  with  much  of  the  best  blood  of  New  England,  being 
connected  with  Benjamin  Franklin,  and  General  Nathaniel 
Greene,  the  friend  of  Washington.  Coming  of  such  ances- 
try it  is  not  strange  that  he  took  pride  therein,  and  was 
ever  loyal  to  the  free  institutions  of  the  land  they  had 
helped  to  establish,  and  to  the  dear  old  Flag  for  which 
he  fought  when  the  time  carne  for  him  to  show  his  man- 
hood and  devotion. 

He  was  of  large,  powerful  frame  and  splendid  con- 
stitution, and  as  a  young  man  was  fond  of  every  kind  of 
physical  exercise.  He  was  a  student  at  Brown  University 
when  the  Rebellion  broke  upon  the  country,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  Kentish  Guards,  a  local  militia  organiza- 
tion of  his  native  city,  when  the  first  call  for  troops  came 
in  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  First  Rhode  Island 
Volunteer  Infantry  under  the  call  of  the  President  for 
seventy-five  thousand  men.  The  term  of  enlistment  was 
for  three  months,  and  as  the  First  Rhode  Island  was  one 
of  the  earliest  regiments  to  be  sent  to  Washington,  its 
time  ended  several  weeks  before  the  first  battle  of  Bull 
Run;  but,  following  the  example  of  its  Colonel,  Ambrose 
E.  Burnside,  who  declared  his  intention  to  remain  in 
service  at  the  front  till  fighting  began,  the  whole  regiment 
remained  and  took  part  in  the  battle  when  it  was  fought. 

On  the  muster  out  of  the  First  Rhode  Island,  Private 
Richard  Waterman  returned  to  his  home,  took  part  in 
raising  a  company  of  cavalry,  and  again  entered  service 
as  First  Lieutenant  of  Troop  F  of  the  First  Rhode  Island 
Cavalry. 


MEMORIALS.  479 

He  was  with  his  command  continuously  until  the  dis- 
astrous conflict  at  Fredericksburg,  when,  shattered  in 
health  by  the  hard  service  required  of  him,  he  was  com- 
pelled to  resign,  and  in  January,  1863,  returned  to  Provi- 
dence, as  his  friends  believed,  to  die  in  a  few  weeks.  Up 
to  this  time  his  command  had  been  engaged  in  the  fol- 
lowing battles  and  skirmishes  all  during  the  year  1862: 
Near  Warrenton  Junction,  April  i6th;  Rappahannock 
Crossing,  April  i8th;  Front  Royal,  May  3Oth;  Columbia 
Bridge,  June  2d;  Miller's  Bridge,  June  4th;  Mountain 
Road,  June  9th;  Cedar  Mountain,  August  9th;  North  Rap- 
pahannock and  Catlette's  Station,  August  2ist;  Rappa- 
hannock Station,  August  23rd;  Sulphur  Springs,  August 
26th;  Groveton,  August  28th;  Second  Bull  Run,  August 
3Oth;  Chantilly,  September  ist;  White  Ford,  October 
I2th;  Mountville,  October  3ist;  Hazee  Run,  November 
1 6th,  and  Fredericksburg,  December  I3th — during  all  of 
which  time  Lieutenant  Waterman  had  remained  on  duty, 
refusing  to  go  to  hospital,  though  at  times  so  ill  that  he 
had  to  be  lifted  into  his  saddle. 

In  May,  1863,  he  went  to  California  for  his  health, 
where  he  remained  on  a  ranch  near  San  Francisco,  until 
November,  1864,  when  he  returned  to  the  East,  and  on 
June  21,  1865,  he  married  Miss  Virginia  P.  Rhodes,  of 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  of  this  marriage  were 
born  two  daughters,  since  deceased,  and  one  son,  who 
survives  him — our  Companion,  Mr.  Richard  Waterman. 

In  September,  1865,  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  took  his  degree  two  years  later,  and  after  prac- 
ticing his  profession  for  a  year  in  Boston,  came  to  Chi- 
cago in  December,  1868,  and  entered  the  office  of  James 
L.  Stark.  For  thirty-one  years  Lieutenant  Waterman 
has  been  a  member  of  the  bar  at  Chicago,  chiefly  devot- 
ing himself  to  real  estate  and  real  estate  law. 


480  MEMORIALS. 

He  was  loyal  to  his  adopted  city  and  keenly  interested 
in  its  growth  and  in  every  movement  which  promised  to 
advance  its  interests  and  reputation.  In  1880  he  was 
Sergeant-at-Arms  in  the  Republican  National  Conven- 
tion, which  resulted  in  the  nomination  of  President  Garfield. 

In  1892  his  health  failed  and  forced  his  retirement 
from  active  business  life,  and  drove  him  to  Carlsbad  in 
1895,  and  again  in  1896,  with  the  hope  of  recovery, 
which  proved  vain,  and  in  December,  1899,  he  was  taken 
seriously  ill  and  entered  into  rest  in  the  early  days  of  the 
present  year. 

Our  late  Companion  was  a  gentleman  without  fear 
and  without  reproach,  and  a  true  patriot  worthy  of  the 
stock  from  which  he  descended,  and  his  memory  should 
and  will  be  cherished  by  us,  his  Companions  who  survive 
him,  for  the  short  time  they  may  remain  behind  in  their 
life's  journey,  with  sincere  sympathy  for  his  sorrowing 
wife  and  son. 

WILLIAM  ELIOT  FURNESS, 
JOSEPH  B.   LEAKE, 

ALBERT  L.    COE, 

Committee. 


EDWIN   ANSON   BOWEN. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Fifty-second  Illinois  Infantry,  United  States   Vol- 
unteers.    Died  at  Jacksonville,  Florida,  January  8,  1900. 

OAPIDLY  the  survivors  of  the  great  war  are  falling 
into  the  silent  rest.  Companion  Edwin  Anson 
Bowen  departed  this  life  at  Jacksonville,  Florida, 
on  the  morning  of  January  8,  1900. 

His  death  was  caused  by  heart  failure,  of  which  he 
had  premonitory  symptoms  during  the  last  three  years. 
He  was  born  near  Fitzwilliam,  in  Cheshire  County,  New 
Hampshire,  on  November  11,  1831,  and  was  the  young- 
est son  of  Moses  A.  Bowen,  who  came  to  Illinois  in  1834, 
and  entered  a  half  section  of  land  at  Perkin's  Grove  (now 
La  Moille),  in  Bureau  County.  On  this  farm  Companion 
Bowen  was  raised.  In  1848  he  became  a  student  in 

481 


482  MEMORIALS. 

Judson  College,  Mount  Pulaski,  Illinois,  where  he  studied 
two  and  a  half  years;  and  during  the  next  eight  years  he 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits.  In  1859  he  purchased 
an  interest  in  a  mine  near  Denver,  Colorado,  and  spent 
about  two  years  in  developing  it,  and  then  returned  to 
his  old  home  in  Illinois.  The  storm  of  our  great  Civil 
War  was  just  breaking  over  the  land,  and,  responding  to 
President  Lincoln's  second  call  for  volunteers,  he  assisted 
in  recruiting  a  company  and  as  its  chosen  Captain  brought 
it  into  the  camp  of  the  "Lincoln  Regiment"  then  being 
organized  at  Camp  Lyon,  at  Geneva,  Illinois,  by  Colonel 
Isaac  G.  Wilson,  under  authority  from  the  Secretary  of 
War.  He  was  mustered  with  his  company  into  the  ser- 
vice on  October  25,  1861,  as  Company  B,  of  the  Fifty- 
second  Illinois  Infantry  Volunteers,  and  his  commission 
from  Governor  Richard  Yates  gave  him  the  rank  of  Cap- 
tain from  October  8th  of  that  year.  He  at  once  took  up 
the  studies  and  duties  of  military  life  with  the  assiduity 
and  thoroughness  that  was  a  marked  characteristic  of  his 
nature,  and  quickly  attracted  the  attention  of  both 
officers  and  men,  and  Company  B  was  soon  acknowl- 
edged one  of  the  best  disciplined  and  drilled  companies, 
and  Captain  Bowen  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  most 
competent  officers  of  the  organization.  The  close  inti- 
macy and  thorough  acquaintance  which  military  associa- 
tion affords  strengthened  and  deepened  that  impression, 
and  no  member  of  his  regiment  was  more  highly  and 
unanimously  respected  and  trusted  than  was  our  deceased 
Companion.  In  a  marked  degree  he  was  a  man  of  sturdy, 
reliable  character.  Knowing  him  to-day,  one  knew  him 
for  the  future.  His  courage  was  beyond  question,  and 
he  had  a  large  capacity  for  work,  so  that  he  could,  and 
always  did,  share  with  his  men  all  the  dangers,  duties 
and  hardships  of  war.  He  was  a  man  of  fine  executive 


MEMORIALS.  483 

ability,  and  he  was  just  and  kind.  His  temper  was  pe- 
culiarly even,  and  his  passions  were  under  complete  con- 
trol. He  had  a  high  sense  of  honor,  and  strong  convic- 
tions of  duty.  Profanity  and  obscenity  were  strangers 
to  his  lips.  He  was  strictly  temperate  and  morally  pure 
in  word  and  deed,  and  a  man  of  strong  religious  nature, 
who  without  obtrusion  let  it  be  distinctly  known.  So 
clearly  recognized  were  his  soldierly  qualities,  that  when 
his  regiment  was  left  without  field  officers  during  the 
great  battle  of  Shiloh,  he  took  its  direction  and  control 
without  official  orders,  but  by  common  consent,  although 
not  the  ranking  Captain,  and  on  the  loth  of  the  follow- 
ing month  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major.  Sub- 
sequently, in  the  regular  line  of  promotion,  he  received 
his  commission  as  Lieutenant  Colonel,  to  rank  as  such 
from  March  n,  1863,  which  rank  he  held  until  the  time 
of  his  enlistment  expired.  He  was  mustered  out  of  the 
service  at  Rome,  Georgia,  on  the  24th  day  of  October, 
1864.  On  the  23d  day  of  August  of  that  year  Governor 
Yates  issued  to  him  a  commission  giving  to  him  the  rank 
of  Colonel,  from  February  2Oth;  but  he  was  never  mus- 
tered in  that  rank.  He  was  of  robust  physique  and 
rarely  ill,  and  probably  accomplished  as  many  days  of 
active  duty  as  any  soldier  of  the  command,  and  was  with 
his  regiment  in  all  its  camps,  marches  and  battles,  par- 
ticipating in  over  twenty  engagements. 

At  the  close  of  his  military  service  Companion  Bowen 
returned  to  his  old  home,  and  in  the  spring  of  1865  he, 
with  others,  organized  the  First  National  Bank  of  Men- 
dota,  Illinois,  and  became  its  President,  with  Quarter- 
master Fulton  Gifford,  of  his  old  regiment,  as  Cashier; 
and  these  two  comrades  and  friends  conducted  success- 
fully the  affairs  of  this  bank  for  over  thirty  years,  making 
it  one  of  the  most  safe  and  profitable  moneyed  institu- 


484  MEMORIALS. 

tions  in  that  part  of  the  State.  Each  acquired  honest 
wealth  and  the  highest  esteem  of  the  entire  community. 
In  1897  he  experienced  a  nervous  shock,  indicating 
paralysis  or  some  kindred  ailment,  and  with  his  accus- 
tomed promptness  he  at  once  disposed  of  his  business 
interests  and  withdrew  from  active  pursuits.  The  inter- 
vening years  Companion  Bowen  has  passed  in  quiet 
home  life,  and  in  leisurely  travel,  always  accompanied 
by  his  accomplished  wife,  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Bowen,  visiting 
and  lingering  in  the  pleasantest  resorts  of  the  land.  Ap- 
parently in  good  health,  he  knew  well  the  character  of 
the  disease  that  threatened  him,  and  steadily  held  him- 
self in  instant  readiness  for  the  inevitable  summons;  and 
when  it  came,  quietly,  without  pain  or  fear,  he  fell  asleep 
like  one  "  who  wraps  the  drapery  of  his  couch  about  him 
and  lies  down  to  pleasant  dreams. " 

This  Commandery  tenders  to  the  bereaved  wife  and 
sons  and  daughters  of  our  deceased  Companion  the  sin- 
cere sympathy  of  its  members — yet  points  with  pride  to 
the  Christian  character  and  manly  life  of  him  they  mourn, 
as  the  highest  solace  in  their  sad  affliction. 

JOHN  S.   WILCOX, 
HENRY  K.   WOLCOTT, 
MAURICE  J.   MCGRATH, 

Committee. 


CHRISTIAN    ERICKSON. 

First  Lieutenant  Eighty-second  Illinois  Infantry  and  Brevet  Captain, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 

January  20,  1900. 

I  HIS  Commandery  has  lost  another  worthy  member 
^  in  the  death  of  Captain  Christian  Erickson,  which 
occurred  on  the  2Oth  of  January,  1900,  in  Chicago, 
Illinois.  Captain  Erickson  was  a  native  of  Bergen, 
Norway,  and  came  to  this  country  in  the  year  1859,  at 
the  age  of  twenty  years.  In  March,  1862,  he  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  Company  I,  Eighty-second  Regiment 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  He  was  mustered  as 
Orderly  Sergeant,  October  23,  1862,  appointed  Second 
Lieutenant  December  11,  1862,  and  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  First  Lieutenant  March  12,  1864.  He  served 

485 


486  MEMORIALS. 

with  his  regiment  in  the  Eleventh  Corps,  first  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  and,  after  the  battle  of  Chicka- 
mauga,  with  the  Arrny  of  the  Cumberland.  On  March 
13,  1865,  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  by 
brevet,  for  gallant  and  meritorious  conduct,  and  on  the 
9th  of  June  of  the  same  year,  the  war  being  ended,  he 
was  discharged  with  his  regiment  from  military  service. 
In  the  numerous  campaigns  in  which  his  regiment 
participated  Captain  Erickson  distinguished  himself  at 
all  times  by  his  soldierly  bearing  and  strict  devotion  to 
duty.  He  was  cool  and  courageous  in  action,  and  to  his 
soldiers  always  a  model  of  excellent  military  discipline. 
After  the  war  Captain  Erickson  was  successfully-  em- 
ployed until  a  few  years  ago  in  mercantile  pursuits.  His 
career  in  business  marked  him  as  a  gentleman  of  the 
strictest  integrity  and  highest  honor,  and  all  who  knew 
him  bear  cheerful  testimony  that  he  was  a  most  patriotic 
and  public-spirited  citizen. 

Besides  his  numerous  friends  and  Companions  he 
leaves  behind  him  his  widow,  Agnes  Jevne  Erickson,  of 
Chicago,  and  four  children,  to  whom  we  express  our 
most  heartfelt  sympathy  in  their  great  sorrow. 

FRANCIS  LACKNER, 
WILLIAM  TODD, 
WILLIAM  VOCKE, 

Committee. 


ADDISON  AUGUSTUS  ADAIR. 

Captain  Seventy-eighth   Ohio    Infantry,    United   States    Volunteers. 
Died  at  Marion,  Ohio,  January  27,  igoo. 

ePTAIN  Addison  Augustus  Adair  was  born  in  Zanes- 
ville,  Ohio,  September  27,  1842,  and  died  at 
Marion,  Ohio,  January  27,  1900.  He  enlisted  as  a 
private  soldier  in  the  Seventy-eighth  Ohio  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, and  went  with  his  regiment  to  the  front  in 
December,  1861,  reporting  to  the  Second  Brigade,  Third 
Division,  Seventeenth  Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  Ten- 
nessee. He  served  three  years  and  nine  months  in  the 
successive  grades  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Captain,  April  22,  1865.  Companion  Adair  was  with 
his  regiment  at  Fort  Donelson,  Shiloh  and  the  Siege  of 
Corinth,  and  participated  in  the  battles  of  Port  Gibson, 

487 


488  MEMORIALS. 

Raymond,  Jackson,  Champion  Hills,  Black  River  and 
the  Siege  of  Vicksburg.  After  the  surrender  of  Vicks- 
burg  the  Seventy-eighth  Ohio  Infantry  returned  home  on 
a  veteran  furlough,  and  on  May  7,  1864,  they  were 
ordered  to  rejoin  Sherman's  Army  in  Georgia  and  were 
with  him  on  his  March  to  the  Sea,  participating  in  all  the 
battles  incident  to  that  great  march.  Companion  Adair 
took  part  in  twenty-five  different  battles  besides  many 
skirmishes. 

The  records  show  that  Companion  Adair  was  a  man 
of  fine  appearance,  correct  habits  and  quiet  demeanor. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Phil.  Sheridan  Post,  No.  615, 
Department  of  Illinois,  Oak  Park,  having  served  as 
Commander  of  the  Post,  and  Senior  Vice-Commander  of 
the  Department  of  Illinois. 

March  13,  1867,  Companion  Adair  was  married  to 
Virginia  McConnell,  of  McConnellsville,  Ohio,  who, 
with  her  daughter  Ella,  and  son  Charles  M.  Adair,  sur- 
vives him. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  S.  Hoyt,  Pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  of  which  Com- 
panion Adair  was  a  member,  wrote  the  following: 

"  It  will  be  hard  for  us  to  realize  that  this  hearty 
friend,  with  his  warm  hand-shake  and  cheery  voice,  will 
be  seen  no  more  in  our  church  fellowship.  We  shall 
greatly  miss  one  so  regular  in  attendance  morning  and 
night,  and  so  prompt  and  earnest  in  taking  part.  His 
voice  could  often  be  heard  above  all  others  in  the  re- 
sponsive readings  and  in  song.  He  evidently  enjoyed 
such  participations  with  a  keen  relish.  He  was  a  good 
listener  and  often  deeply  moved  by  the  truth.  No  man 
ever  had  a  tenderer  heart  than  this  hardy,  outspoken 
soldier.  His  death  brought  sorrow  to  all  our  people, 
who  will  long  remember  his  honest,  whole-hearted 


MEMORIALS.  489 

nature.      We  believe  he  fought  the  fight,  kept  the  faith 

and  gained  the  crown." 

ELIJAH  S.   WATTS, 
WTILLIAM  TODD, 
DUKE  NICHELSON, 

Committee. 


EZRA  WOLCOTT  KINGSBURY. 

Captain  Second  Colorado   Cavalry,  United  States  Volunteers.     Died 
at    Chicago,   Illinois,   February  g,   igoo. 

e'TAIN  EzraWolcott  Kingsbury,  born  June  11,  1830, 
in  South  Coventry,  Connecticut,  died  February  9, 
1900,  in  Chicago,  Illinois.  The  beginning  and  end  of  life 
on  earth;  a  mere  drop  compared  to  the  ocean  of  eternity. 
But  what  of  the  between  ?  Doubtless  the  usual  vicissi- 
tudes of  business  —  failures  and  successes  —  but  more 
than  that  —  service  for  his  country. 

In  May,  1862,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Governor  of 
Colorado  to  assist  in  recruiting  and  organizing  the  Third 
Colorado  Infantry.  In  October  of  that  year  he  was  com- 
missioned First  Lieutenant  and  subsequently  Captain. 
Thereafter  the  regiment  was  consolidated  with  the  Sec- 

490 


MEMORIALS.  491 

ond  Colorado  Infantry  and  became  the  Second  Colorado 
Cavalry,  in  October,  1863.  Our  Companion  was  com- 
missioned as  Captain  of  Company  I,  Second  Cavalry, 
and  was  mustered  in  January  12,  1863.  He  was  mus- 
tered out  of  the  service,  August,  1865. 

He  served  in  Missouri  and  Arkansas  and  participated 
in  the  campaign  which  resulted  in  the  defeat  and  capture 
of  Jeff.  Thompson,  and  in  the  battle  of  Prairie  Grove,  as 
volunteer  Aide  on  General  Blunt's  Staff,  when  he  was 
wounded.  Subsequently  he  participated  in  actions  at 
Independence,  Little  Blue,  Washport,  Mine  Creek  and 
Newtonia,  where  he  was  again  wounded.  Then  he  was 
sent  to  Fort  Riley,  Kansas,  for  Indian  service,  where  he 
remained  until  mustered  out. 

Dates,  names  of  battles,  recital  of  wounds,  muster  in 
and  out,  are  brief  records,  but  the  courage,  the  stern 
purpose  to  do  or  die  for  his  country,  the  fatigues  of 
march,  the  physical  suffering  from  inclement  weather, 
oftentimes  without  sufficient  food,  or  the  total  absence 
of  it,  every  old  soldier  can  fill  in  from  his  own  experience. 

Nothing  was  ever  grander  in  the  history  of  the  world 
than  the  spontaneous  uprising  of  the  men  of  the  North 
in  defense  of  the  Union.  Merchants  closed  their  stores, 
lawyers  left  their  briefs,  doctors  forsook  their  patients, 
clerks  left  their  yard-sticks,  blacksmiths  their  forges, 
carpenters  their  benches,  farmer  boys  left  their  plows  in 
the  furrows,  as  Putnam  did  almost  a  hundred  years  before. 
It  was  a  great  struggle,  Americans  against  Americans. 

Our  honored  Companion  was  in  it  and  of  it.  He 
came  out  with  wounds  and  shattered  health,  but  no  price 
counted  in  dollars  would  have  bought  from  him  his  scars. 
He  was  a  gentleman,  a  welcome  and  honored  Companion 
in  our  Order,  sociable,  unobtrusive,  helpful  (when  he 
could)  to  those  who  needed  help.  He  was  as  good  a 


492  MEMORIALS. 

member  of  our  Order  as  he  was  a  soldier,  and  nothing 

more  could  be  said: 

JOHN  E.    HOWARD, 
CHARLES  T.    HOTCHKISS, 
WILLIAM  H.   FRENCH, 

Committee. 


ALFRED  THEODORE  ANDREAS. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry.  United 

States  Volunteers.      Died  at  New  Rochelle,  Neiv  York, 

February  10,  iqoo. 

r\IED,  on  February  10,  1900,  at  New  Rochelle,  New 
lj  York,  where  he  was  temporarily  residing,  Alfred 
•^^  Theodore  Andreas,  a  member  of  this  Commandery 
since  October  4,  1882.  He  was  born  at  Amity,  Orange 
County,  New  York,  May  29,  1839.  Soon  after  that 
t'me  his  father  removed  to  Chester,  in  the  same  county, 
and  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  later,  to  Holly, 
Pennsylvania.  Having  prospered  at  the  latter  place,  he 
went  to  New  York  City  and  became  a  successful  mer- 
chant. Alfred  received  his  education  at  Chester  Academy. 
Being  of  an  adventurous  and  self-reliant  disposition,  he 

493 


494  MEMORIALS. 

came  Westward,  arriving  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  in  July, 
1857.  He  soon  found  employment,  first  as  a  clerk,  and 
afterwards  as  a  school  teacher,  in  which  latter  calling  he 
continued  for  about  three  years.  In  the  fall  of  1860  he 
went  with  an  Iowa  acquaintance  to  St.  Louis  to  sell  a 
lot  of  horses,  and  while  journeying  through  Missouri, 
was  first  impressed  with  the  evils  of  slavery.  Having 
completed  the  business  of  the  trip,  he  came  across  into 
Illinois,  stopping  near  Sparta,  Randolph  County.  Here 
he  found  employment  during  the  winter  of  1860  and 
1861,  and  up  to  the  beginning  of  the  war.  Concerning 
his  employment  at  that  time,  he  says:  "At  that  time  I 
was  little  more  than  a  boy.  Circumstances  had  drifted 
me  into  a  little  place  in  Southern  Illinois,  some  sixteen 
miles  from  a  railroad,  where  I  was  getting  a  small  salary 
for  presiding  over  the  rising  generation  of  the  neighbor- 
hood. In  other  words,  I  was  teaching  school."  When 
the  first  call  for  seventy-five  thousand  troops  was  made, 
he  made  an  unsuccessful  attempt  to  .enter  the  army. 
Later,  on  July  21,  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Com- 
pany G,  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  the  next  day 
joined  the  regiment,  then  stationed  at  Cairo.  He  was 
with  the  regiment  in  its  various  camps  at  Cairo,  Birds- 
point  and  Paducah,  in  the  summer  of  1861,  and  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  year  at  Smithland,  Kentucky,  where  a 
detachment  of  the  regiment  was  stationed.  He  was,  by 
a  singular  act  of  good  fortune,  both  for  himself  and  the 
command,  detailed  for  duty  in  the  Commissary  Depart- 
ment, for  the  discharge  of  which  he  had  remarkable 
aptitude.  At  the  first  opportunity,  May  I,  1862,  he  was 
made  Commissary  Sergeant,  a  promotion  already  richly 
earned.  In  this  position  he  soon  became  personally 
known  to  every  officer  and  enlisted  man  in  the  regiment, 
numbering  them  all  as  his  friends.  No  day  was  so  stormy, 


MEMORIALS.  495 

no  night  so  dark,  no  situation  so  hazardous  as  to  deter 
him  from  doing  all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  comfort 
and  serve  the  necessities  of  the  men  in  the  command  to 
which  he  belonged.  January  i,  1863,  he  was  commis- 
sioned First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster  of  the  regi- 
ment, in  which  position  his  enlarged  opportunities  and 
duties  were  met  with  the  same  zeal  and  fidelity  that  had 
won  him  his  promotion.  Always  alert,  the  men  of  the 
regiment  never  were  short  in  clothing  and  food,  when  it 
was  possible  for  him  to  procure  them.  During  the 
Atlanta  Campaign  he  was  made  Commissary  of  Division, 
first  on  the  Staff  of  General  Sweeney  and  afterwards 
with  General  Corse,  and  held  this  position  on  the  March 
to  the  Sea  and  through  the  Carolinas.  Having  dis- 
charged faithfully  and  acceptably  every  duty  of  a  sol- 
dier, in  every  capacity  in  which  it  came  to  him,  he  was 
mustered  out  at  Goldsboro,  North  Carolina,  April  i, 
1865.  He  returned  home,  and  on  May  31,  1865,  was 
married  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  to  Miss  Sophia  Lyter, 
who  made  his  home  happy,  and  shared  his  successes  and 
reverses  during  their  nearly  thirty-five  years  of  mar- 
ried life,  and  who  with  two  daughters,  Eulalia  Lyter 
Andreas  and  Elouie  Lyter  Atherton,  survives  him.  Re- 
turning to  civil  life  with  his  views  broadened  and  his 
energies  quickened  and  strengthened  by  his  military  ex- 
perience, which  had  been  educational  to  him,  he  at  once 
sought  a  field  for  active  enterprise.  He  had  seen  great 
things  done  and  had  helped  to  do  them,  and  he  could  see 
no  reason  why  he  could  not  undertake  and  accomplish 
great  enterprises,  as  well  as  other  men.  He  was  a 
pioneer  in  the  county  atlas  and  history  work  in  the  West, 
and  in  it  achieved  notable  success.  This  brought  him 
to  and  identified  him  with  our  city,  and  his  history  of 
Chicago  will  long  remain  a  standard  work  upon  which 


496  MEMORIALS. 

the  student  and  the  future  historian  must  rely.  Success 
soon  crowned  his  efforts.  He  took  at  its  flood  the  tide 
in  the  affairs  of  men  which  leads  on  to  fortune,  but  that 
same  tide  in  its  ebb  bore  him  out  on  a  tempestuous  sea 
where  the  waves  of  financial  disaster  overwhelmed  him. 
Though  his  energy  never  flagged  and  hope  never  deserted 
him,  he  was  never  able  to  retrieve  his  fortune.  He 
envied  no  man's  good  fortune,  and  in  his  many  enter- 
prises, successful  and  unsuccessful,  we  believe  it  can  be 
truthfully  said  of  him  that  he  never  intentionally  wronged 
any  man.  Wearied  with  the  struggle,  he  at  last  laid 
himself  down  to  rest,  and  "After  life's  fitful  fever,  he 
sleeps  well. "  He  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  and  believed  in  it,  not  only  as  a  fraternal  organ- 
ization, but  as  one  of  the  reliable  agencies  through  which 
the  truth  concerning  the  great  struggle  in  which  we  were 
engaged  shall  be  transmitted  to  the  future. 

JOHN  MCARTHUR, 
GEORGE  L.   PADDOCK, 
GEORGE  HUNT, 

Committee 


JOHN  FRANCIS  McGUIRE. 

Captain   One  Hundred  and  Fifty -third  New   York  Infantry,  United 

States   Volunteers       Died  at  Anniston, 

Alabama,  February  ig,   igoo. 

ffEEPING  pace  with  the  swift-winged  years  on  their 
\ \  march  toward  eternity,  stalks  our  old  time  enemy, 
^*  inexorable  and  insatiate.  We  have  met  him  face 
to  face  on  the  lonely  picket  post,  on  the  weary  march 
through  poisoned  fen  and  deadly  morass,  on  the  blood- 
sodden  fields  of  the  Southland,  and  the  victory  has  been 
ours.  But,  the  battle  of  life  is  nearly  ended,  and,  worn 
with  the  constant  strife,  we  shall  soon  find  rest  within 
"those  low  green  tents  whose  curtains  never  outward 
swing. "  Into  the  sacred  precincts  of  that  camp  where 
sleep  the  pale-faced  battalions  of  our  soldier  dead,  has 

497 


49^  MEMORIALS. 

passed  our  late  Companion  John  Francis  McGuire,  who 
died  February  19,  1900,  at  Anniston,  Alabama,  in  his 
sixty-second  year.  Companion  McGuire  was  a  self-made 
man,  and  had  won  the  respect  and  highest  regard  of  his 
fellow  men  in  the  communities  wherein  he  lived.  He 
was  known  to  but  few  of  our  Cornmandery,  however,  by 
reason  of  his  frequent  absences  in  quest  of  health,  and 
because  of  his  retiring  disposition  and  unassuming  ways 
when  with  us.  He  was  born  in  "  a  small  town  in  the 
Adirondacks"  (to  use  his  own  phrasing),  February  22, 
1838,  and  in  the  few  leisure  moments  attending  his  strug- 
gle for  fortune  he  studied  for  the  profession  of  law. 
When  the  Nation's  call  was  sounded  in  1861,  he  was  at- 
tending a  school  in  Canada,  but  shortly  thereafter  re- 
turned to  his  home,  where,  through  his  strenuous  per- 
sonal efforts,  together  with  the  expenditure  of  his  meager 
savings,  he  succeeded  in  raising  a  company,  numbering 
about  forty-five  men,  out  of  a  community  whose  patriot- 
ism lay  so  dormant  that  only  his  most  determined  efforts 
served  to  rouse  its  members  to  the  shame  of  their  condi- 
tion and  the  threatened  disgrace  of  a  draft.  His  men 
were  assigned  to  Company  I,  One  Hundred  and  Fifty- 
third  New  York  Infantry,  and  he  was  appointed  their 
First  Lieutenant.  He  served  constantly  with  his  regi- 
ment in  Abercrombie's  Division,  Defenses  of  Washington, 
through  Banks's  Red  River  Campaign,  and  again  with 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  from  July,  1864,  to  the  end  at 
Appomattox.  He  was  detailed  as  Assistant  Provost  Mar- 
shal of  Savannah,  remaining  at  that  point  until  he  was 
mustered  out,  as  Captain,  in  October,  1865.  Later  on 
he  was  brevetted  Major  by  the  Governor  of  his  native 
State.  At  the  close  of  his  service  he  again  took  up  the 
study  of  law,  and  in  1867  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
In  1868  he  removed  to  Clinton,  Iowa,  where  he  prospered 


MEMORIALS.  499 

in  his  practice,  and  December  6,  1876,  was  married  to 
Miss  Julia  Thomas,  of  Lyons,  Iowa.  He  identified  him- 
self closely  with  the  best  interests  of  the  community  and 
soon  became  a  prominent  factor  in  its  public  affairs, 
until  a  few  years  ago,  when  he  was  compelled  to  retire 
from  public  life  and  seek  a  warmer  climate  in  the  hope 
of  restoring  his  health. 

He  leaves  surviving  him  a  widow  and  two  sons,  Frank 
E.,  and  Frederick  T. ,  to  whom  we  express  our  sorrow 
and  extend  our  heartfelt  sympathy  in  this  the  saddest 

hour  of  life. 

JOHN  J.  ABERCROMBIE, 
WILLIAM  N.   DANKS, 

BRADLEY  DEAN, 

Committee. 


JOHN  McNULTA. 

Colonel    Ninety-fourth     Illinois    Infantry    and    Brevet    Brigadier 

General,  United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Washington, 

District  of  Columbia,  February  22,  iqoo. 

/'TOHN     McNULTA,    Colonel    Ninety-fourth     Illinois 
Infantry    and    Brevet    Brigadier    General,    United 
States    Volunteers.       Elected    January    13,     1887. 
First  Class.      No.    5287.      Chicago,  Illinois. 

Such  is  the  short  and  simple  record  of  a  man  recently 
passed  from  amongst  us,  given  back  now  to  mother 
earth,  who  while  he  lived  was  not  alone  an  honored 
Companion  of  this  Order,  but  as  well  a  companion, 
confidant  and  friend  of  the  foremost  men  of  our  time, 
and  who  wrought  greatly  with  them  in  silent  fashion  for 
his  country  and  his  kind. 

500 


MEMORIALS.  5<DI 

He  who  writes  these  lines  first  met  him  in  the  year 
1862;  before  the  great  war  had  assumed  all  of  its  pro- 
portions or  manifested  all  of  its  results,  he  had  been  in 
the  front  of  the  fray  from  Lexington's  noted  defense 
until  that  hour,  and  young  as  he  was,  the  grave  issues  of 
his  earlier  service  had  molded  his  face  and  thoughts  to  a 
severer  cast  than  pertained  to  his  years. 

He  was  born  in  New  York  City  on  November  9, 
1837.  His  earlier  days  were  those  of  a  poor,  struggling 
and  faithful  lad;  often  he  has  told,  simply  and  effectively, 
of  the  trials  of  that  period  of  his  life;  leaving  home  for 
the  world  he  traveled  West,  coming  into  this  new  land 
by  the  old  water  way,  the  canal,  paying  for  his  trip  in 
labor,  studying  with  a  boy's  eagerness  that  which  lay 
around  him,  and  full  of  a  boy's  hope  for  what  stretched 
before  him.  At  last  he  reached  the  Wabash  Valley,  and 
in  one  of  its  flourishing  towns  in  a  western  county  of 
Indiana,  and  near  to  the  border  of  this  State,  he  began 
his  slow  upward  climb. 

For  years  he  was  engaged  in  commercial  avocation 
which  took  him  to  and  from  Attica,  his  home,  up  and 
down  the  valley  and  farther  to  the  West.  Allured  by  the 
attractions  of  Bloomington,  he  finally  settled  in  that 
city,  where  he  still  continued  his  business;  but  when  the 
war  trumpets  sounded  in  1861,  he  arranged  affairs  with 
his  partners,  and  entered  the  service  of  the  United 
States,  as  Captain  of  the  First  Illinois  Cavalry.  His 
service  was  in  Missouri,  and  he  shared  in  the  perils  and 
disasters  of  the  command  under  Colonel  Mulligan,  which 
sustained  the  siege  at  Lexington,  '  where  he  was  sur- 
rendered as  a  prisoner  of  war. 

Following  the  fashion  of  the  time,  the  ladies  of  his 
home  city  had  presented  Captain  McNulta  with  a  sword. 
This  he  refused  to  surrender,  saying  that  he  would  die 


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with  it  rather  than  lose  it.  His  wishes  were  respected 
by  the  enemy  and  he  was  allowed  to  retain  the  sword. 
After  being  paroled  he  returned  home,  and  when  duly 
exchanged  he  entered  the  service  of  the  United  States 
again  as  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the  Ninety-fourth  Illinois, 
William  W.  Orme  being  the  Colonel.  Upon  the  pro- 
motion of  Orme  in  the  year  1863  to  be  Brigadier 
General,  McNulta  became  Colonel,  and  so  continued 
until  the  end  of  the  great  war  came  in  1865.  He  was 
brevetted  Brigadier  General  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
services,  particularly  those  in  the  neighborhood  of  Mobile, 
where  he  maintained  an  influential  command,  and  had 
much  to  do  with  the  success  of  the  land  operations 
against  that  famous  point. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
and  of  this  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  which  he 
joined  in  1887,  and  where  we  all  became  familiar  with 
his  face  and  form.  He  was  a  genial,  affectionate, 
splendid  friend.  A  man  of  generosity,  and  in  civil  life 
of  great  enterprises,  from  which  he  drew  large  rewards. 
He  was  the  receiver  of  two  great  railroads,  both  of 
which  he  brought  by  his  superior  management  from  a 
condition  of  bankruptcy  to  a  paying  basis.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  in  charge  of  a  third  railway  line  as 
receiver,  which  he  had  managed,  and  which  was  also  ap- 
proaching a  successful  completion  and  paying  basis.  In 
addition  to  these  duties  he  was  the  receiver  of  the 
Whisky  Trust,  and  of  the  National  Bank  of  Illinois,  and 
all  of  these  concerns  he  managed  with  consummate 
skill.  He  had  the  confidence  and  affection  of  the  judges 
who  appointed  him,  and  of  those  who  supervised  his 
trust,  General  Walter  Q.  Gresham,  formerly  Commander 
of  this  Commandery,  and  Judge  Grosscup  were  among 
his  warmest  personal  friends. 


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In  political  life  General  McNulta  was  a  Senator  in 
the  State  of  Illinois,  and  a  Member  of  Congress  from  the 
Bloomington  District,  so  that  his  life  seemed  typically 
American;  soldier,  lawyer,  civilian  operator,  trustee,  and 
political  leader.  He  reached  high  fame,  and  accom- 
plished enduring  and  satisfactory  results. 

He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  the  administration  of 
the  Government  of  his  country  in  the  war  with  Spain 
(and  the  Philippine  prolongation  of  that  war),  taking  an 
energetic  part,  especially  in  the  organization  of  the 
Naval  Reserve  Corps,  whose  young  men,  prepared  by 
his  activity  and  vigilance,  stood  under  the  flag  of  their 
country  and  on  the  decks  of  the  great  navy,  and  that 
great  ship  the  Oregon,  which  destroyed  the  fleet  of 
Cervera  and  helped  to  make  the  national  name  brilliant 
and  widely  respected. 

He  leaves  a  wife,  three  sons  and  a  daughter  to  bewail 
with  us  the  occurrence  of  the  inevitable.  All  over  this 
State  and  throughout  the  nation  sincere  mourners  have 
gathered  to  pay  their  last  and  fitting  respect  to  him;  and 
going,  he  bears  with  him  to  his  rest  the  regard,  the 
affection  and  the  esteem  of  his  country.  When  he  fell 
great  men  and  great  chieftains  sorrowed,  and  from  the 
White  House  to  the  humble  homes  of  those  whom  he 
had  assisted,  sounded  the  words  of  condolence,  of 
sympathy  and  of  grief. 

He  is  a  day's  march  in  advance!  We  tread  the  same 
highway!  We  too  approach,  with  lifted  heads,  the  same 
grand  portals!  The  work  of  our  generation  is  done,  and 
it  is  the  greatest  in  the  rounds  of  time.  May  the  Com- 
mander greet  us  as  we  pass  through,  and  assign  us 
pleasant  quarters  in  the  eternal  bivouac. 

"  The  shouting  and  the  tumult  dies, 
The  captains  and  the  king  depart," 


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but  while  liberty  endures,  we — not  as  individuals,  but  as 

a  vast  host — will  be  remembered. 

McNulta,  John,  General — mustered  out  of  the  military 

service  of  the  United  States,   July   17,   1865.      Placed  on 

the  final  roll,  February  22,   1900. 

JOHN  C.   BLACK, 
HORATIO  L.   WAIT, 
JOHN  J.   HEALY, 

Committee. 


JOSEPH  WARREN  HARMON. 

First  Lieutenant  aud  Assistant  Surgeon  Forty-second  Ohio  Infantry, 
United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 
March  29,   1900. 

3URGEON  Joseph  Warren  Harmon  was  born  in 
Watertown,  New  York,  June  20,  1815.  Early  in 
the  seventeenth  century  his  ancestors  founded  the 
town  of  Suffolk,  Connecticut.  Two  of  the  Harmon  family 
were  commissioned  officers  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 
David  Harmon,  the  father  of  Surgeon  Harmon,  removed 
to  Watertown,  and  here  the  boy  grew  to  manhood. 
Here  he  was  educated,  and  graduated  from  Black 
River  Institute  in  1840.  In  1845  ne  graduated  from 
the  Albany  Medical  College.  After  graduation,  he  at- 
tended a  course  of  lectures  and  clinics  at  the  University 

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of  New  York,  and  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
Rome,  New  York.  In  1848,  he  removed  to  Chagrin 
Falls,  near  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  he  attained  eminence 
in  his  profession,  and  became  widely  known  as  a  skillful 
surgeon.  He  became  the  family  physician  of  the  Garfield 
family,  and  it  was  largely  through  his  influence  and 
encouraging  words  that  James  A.  Garfield,  then  a  boy  of 
eighteen,  began  the  course  of  study  which  opened  the 
way  to  his  remarkable  career. 

In  May,  1861,  Mr.  Garfield  was  appointed  Colonel  of 
the  Forty-second  Ohio  Infantry  Volunteers,  and,  by  his 
special  request,  Dr.  Harmon  was  appointed  Assistant 
Surgeon.  Later  in  the  year  Colonel  Garfield  was  placed 
in  command  of  a  brigade  and  assigned  to  duty  in  Eastern 
Kentucky.  A  general  hospital  was  established  in  Louisa, 
Kentucky,  under  his  command,  and  to  this  Dr.  Harmon 
was  assigned  to  duty  as  Surgeon  in  charge.  To  this 
important  duty  he  brought  all  the  resources  at  his  com- 
mand, all  the  energy  of  his  vigorous  manhood,  all  the 
skill  and  judgment  which  he  had  acquired  by  long  expe- 
rience. 

It  is  a  matter  of  common  knowledge  that  during  the 
first  year  of  the  war  the  medical  department  was  sadly 
deficient.  Many  of  those  commissioned  as  Surgeons  and 
Assistant  Surgeons  were  inexperienced,  some  were  incom- 
petent, and  not  a  few  were  utterly  unfit  for  the  places 
they  occupied.  The  new  recruits  were  full  of  patriotic 
ardor,  but  many  were  wofully  deficient  in  sanitary  ideas, 
and  recklessly  jeopardized  their  health.  Change  of  cli- 
mate, mode  of  life,  diet  and  environment  soon  made  sad 
inroads  in  regimental  ranks,  and  swelled  the  hospital 
rolls.  Surgeon  Harmon  quickly  appreciated  this  abnormal 
condition,  and  sought  to  neutralize  it  as  far  as  possible. 
He  perceived  that  the  medicine  chest  and  the  knife  should 


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be  supplemented  by  attention  to  sanitary  conditions, 
sympathy  and  cheering  words.  And  so  it  came  to  pass 
that  this  hospital  showed  the  best  results  of  any  in  the 
department. 

Returning  to  his  regiment  in  April,  1862,  he  shared 
its  varied  fortunes  until  our  forces  were  compelled  to 
abandon  Cumberland  Gap  and  retreat  to  the  Ohio  River. 
Worn  out  by  active  service  and  hardship  he  succumbed 
and  was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Gallipolis.  After  remain- 
ing there  a  month,  he  was  advised  that  he  would  be  unfit 
for  duty  for  a  long  time,  and  he  reluctantly  resigned  his 
commission  and  joined  his  family  in  Chicago. 

He  resided  in  Blue  Island  till  1890,  when  he  removed 
to  Chicago,  where  he  resided  with  his  son,  Charles  Sum- 
ner  Harmon,  till  he  passed  away  on  the  29th  day  of 
March,  1900,  aged  eighty-four  years. 

Dr.  Harmon  participated  actively  in  the  political 
campaign  of  1840,  when  General  William  Henry  Harrison 
was  elected  President,  and  in  every  Presidential  campaign 
since  that  time.  He  believed  that  every  American  citi- 
zen owed  a  duty  to  his  country  in  peace  as  well  as  in 
war,  and  this  duty  he  conscientiously  discharged.  Early 
in  life  he  became  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  anti-slavery 
sentiment,  and  gladly  shared  the  obloquy  visited  upon 
those  who  had  the  temerity  to  love  their  fellow-men — of 
a  darker  hue — then  despised  as  abolition  fanatics,  but 
since  honored  as  reformers,  patriots  and  philanthropists. 
He  was  intimately  associated  with  the  leaders  of  the 
movement  in  Ohio — the  storm  center  of  which  was  in 
the  Western  Reserve — which  made  the  names  of  Chase, 
and  Giddings,  and  Wade,  and  Birney,  and  many  others, 
immortal. 

In  his  profession,  Dr.  Harmon  was  a  close  student 
and  a  careful  observer,  but  he  relied  more  upon  the  prac- 


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tical  results  of  observation  and  experience  than  upon  the 
learned  disquisitions  and  ingenious  theories  with  which 
medical  literature  abounds;  and  he  came  to  regard  the 
preventive  phase  of  his  profession  as  quite  as  important 
as  its  remedial  function.  During  his  later  years  his  life 
was  one  of  comparative  leisure.  He  enriched  his  mind 
by  travel,  and  reading,  and  gave  generously  of  his  time 
and  means  to  philanthropic  work.  Ambitious  only  to 
be  useful  to  mankind;  living  a  stainless  life;  cheerful  and 
content  in  his  happy  home;  rejoicing  in  genial  compan- 
ionship and  the  merry  laughter  of  childhood,  he  passed 
the  evening  of  his  days-  in  gladness. 

A  firm  believer  in  the  immortal  life  beyond,  he  yielded 
willing  obedience  to  the  sanctions  of  religion,  ever  mindful 
that  the  service  most  acceptable  to  the  Father  is  loyal 
and  loving  service  to  His  children.  For  creed  or  dogma 
he  cared  little,  but  with  a  sublime  trust  in  God  echoed 
the  devout  and  comforting  words  of  Whittier: 

"  I  know  not  where  his  islands  lift 
Their  f ronded  palms  in  air; 
I  only  know  I  cannot  drift 
Beyond  His  love  and  care." 

And  so,  after  a  life  full  of  well-doing,  having  seen  the 
ripening  fruitage  of  his  early  hopes,  and  rejoicing  in  the 
fruition  of  his  patriotic  self-sacrifice,  he  was  suddenly 
summoned  to  the  Eternal  Presence,  and  passed  peace- 
fully over  the  dark  river  and  up  the  shining  heights  on 
which  forever  lingers  the  soft  splendor  of 

"The  light  that  never  was  on  sea  or  land," 

where  he  awaits  our  tardier  footsteps. 

ELIJAH  B.   SHERMAN, 
THEODORE  S.   ROGERS, 
WILLIAM  L.   CADLE, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  ELKINS  NEWLIN. 

First  Lieutenant   Third  Provisional  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,    United- 
States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  April  2,  igoo. 

CIRST  LIEUTENANT  George  Elkins  Newlin  was 
|*  born  September  13,  1835,  at  Highland  Township, 
Chester  County,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  the  eldest 
son  of  Henry  Newlin  and  Louisa  Elkins  Newlin.  By 
descent  he  was  a  birthright  Quaker.  His  father  and 
grandfather,  James  Newlin,  were  for  many  years  promi- 
nent in  the  business  affairs  of  Chester  County,  the  grand- 
father being  one  of  the  principal  millers  of  the  county, 
while  the  father  operated  quite  extensive  paper  mills  in 
Highland  Township,  and  at  the  same  time  conducted 
two  stores  in  Philadelphia,  where  the  product  of  his 
paper  mills  was  sold. 

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5IO  MEMORIALS. 

Companion  Newlin  was  educated  at  the  Richard  Dar- 
lington Seminary  in  Chester  County,  from  which  institu- 
tion he  graduated  in  the  year  1853.  He  immediately 
entered  the  service  of  his  grandfather  at  the  flour  mills, 
where  he  remained  until  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He 
then  entered  his  father's  service  in  the  paper  mills.  At 
twenty-five  years  of  age  he  was  taken  into  partnership 
by  his  father,  and  thereafter  both  mills  and  stores  were 
successfully  conducted  under  the  firm  name  of  Henry 
Newlin  &  Son  up  to  August  14,  1862,  when  the  junior 
member  of  the  firm,  the  subject  of  this  memorial,  entered 
the  military  service  of  his  country. 

Companion  Newlin,  in  his  application  for  member- 
ship in  the  Loyal  Legion,  with  characteristic  modesty, 
merely  gives  the  dates  of  his  entry  into  the  service  and 
his  honorable  discharge  therefrom.  Your  committee  has, 
however,  ascertained  the  larger  portion  of  his  real  record 
from  comrades  serving  with  him  during  the  war.  He 
first  entered  the  service  as  First  Lieutenant,  Company 
K,  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth  Pennsylvania  Volun- 
teer Infantry. 

Lieutenant  Newlin  was  with  and  sometimes  in  com- 
mand of  his  company,  in  the  following  engagements: 

1862 — August  29th,  Second  Battle  of  Bull  Run;  Sep- 
tember 1 7th,  Battle  of  Antietam. 

1863 — May  2d,  Battle  of  Chancellorsville. 

Shortly  after  Chancellorsville,  the  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-fourth  Pennsylvania  Infantry  was  mustered  out 
by  reason  of  expiration  of  term  of  service,  and  Lieutenant 
Newlin  was  honorably  discharged  with  his  company. 

After  a  short  service  with  the  Pennsylvania  Militia, 
during  the  emergency  caused  by  the  threatened  invasion 
of  that  State,  he  re-entered  the  service  for  three  years  or 
during  the  war,  as  First  Lieutenant  of  Company  A, 


MEMORIALS.  $1  I 

Eighteenth  Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Cavalry,  April  7, 
1864,  and  with  that  regiment,  in  command  of  or  with 
his  company,  participated  in  the  following  actions: 

1864 — June  loth,  hot  engagement  at  "  Old  Church 
Tavern,"  on  the  road  from  Richmond  to  White  House. 

June  1 5th,  the  whole  brigade,  First  Brigade,  Custer's 
Division  (dismounted),  against  Longstreet's  Infantry, 
holding  the  enemy  while  our  infantry  crossed  the  James 
River  on  their  way  to  Petersburg.  The  regiment  lost 
heavily  in  dead  and  wounded. 

June  23d,  drove  the  Rebels  from  Weldon  Railroad, 
and  were  in  turn  driven  off  until  the  Sixth  Corps  came  to 
their  relief. 

June,  July  and  early  August,  heavy  picket  duty  in 
front  of  the  left  wing  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 

August,  regiment  sent  to  Shenandoah  Valley. 

August  i /th,  regiment  engaged  at  Winchester. 

August  2Oth,  regiment  engaged  at  Summit  Station. 
Newlin,  with  his  company,  was  in  the  fights  at  Leetown 
and  Charlestown. 

September  I9th,  Winchester,  when  "Sheridan  sent 
Early  whirling  up  the  valley." 

September  2Oth,  regiment  engaged  while  in   pursuit. 

September  22d,  regiment  engaged  while  in   pursuit. 

October  6th,  regiment  repulsed  a  night  attack. 

October  iQth,  Battle  of  Cedar  Creek.  Newlin  with 
his  company  was  engaged  all  day,  and  participated  in  the 
brilliant  charge  which  closed  the  struggle  and  swept  from 
the  enemy  their  guns  and  trains.  This  single  brigade 
(First  Brigade,  Third  Division,  commanded  by  General 
Custer)  is  credited  with  the  capture  of  forty-five  pieces 
of  artillery. 

November  I2th,  the  regiment  was  again  engaged.  In 
this  action  Newlin  with  his  company  was  surrounded  by 


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the  enemy,  but  escaped  with  most  of  his  command  by  a 
saber  charge  through  their  lines. 

1865 — February  28th,  Newlin  and  his  company,  as  a 
part  of  two  battalions  of  his  regiment,  went  with  Sheri- 
dan to  Waynesboro,  Virginia,  where  they  captured  the 
remnants  of  Early 's  army.  The  two  battalions,  with  the 
Fifth  New  York  Cavalry,  brought  back  to  Winchester 
fifteen  hundred  prisoners,  despite  Confederate  General 
Rosser's  repeated  attempts  to  capture  them. 

With  the  limited  time  at  our  disposal,  we  have  been 
unable  to  further  extend  Companion  Newlin's  fighting 
record,  or  secure  the  personal  incidents  of  his  service. 
To  conclude  the  history  of  his  military  career,  we  quote 
the  statement  of  Mr.  J.  Andrew  Wilt,  the  present  Pro- 
thonotary  of  Bradford  County,  Pennsylvania,  formerly  a 
member  of  the  Eighteenth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry: 

"He  was  a  good  officer,  as  brave  as  he  was  careful 
of  the  men  under  him;  he  was  never  hasty,  but  always 
cool  and  collected,  and  ready  to  lead  his  men  when 
necessary  to  accomplish  results.  I  never  had  the  pleas- 
ure of  being  under  his  immediate  command,  but  knew 
him  as  one  of  the  best  of  the  line  officers  of  the  regiment." 

Lieutenant  Newlin  was  honorably  discharged  with  his 
company  at  Cumberland,  Maryland,  October  31,  1865. 

The  lesson  of  this  record  to  us  of  the  Loyal  Legion, 
especially  to  the  younger  members,  is  that  we  still  have 
walking  in  and  out  among  us,  modestly  and  quietly  per- 
forming the  duties  of  their  appointed  stations  in  life, 
their  earlier  forms  and  features  hidden  under  the  mask 
of  years,  men  to  whom  in  their  youth  were  given  the 
opportunities  of  heroism. 

On  retiring  from  the  army,  Companion  Newlin  en- 
tered for  a  short  time  the  service  of  the  Philadelphia  Gas 
Company.  He  was  then  made  Cashier  and  Receiver  of 


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the  Union  Traction  Street  Railway  Company,  of  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  served  until  the  organization  of  the 
West  Chicago  Street  Railroad  Company,  in  1886,  when 
he  was  appointed  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  that  Com- 
pany. Since  that  time  he  has  resided  in  Chicago  and 
has  been  connected  with  that  company  and  associate 
corporations  in  various  positions  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bility. At  the  time  of  his  decease  he  was,  in  connection 
with  his  other  duties,  a  Director  in  the  Lake  Street  Ele- 
vated Railroad,  and  also  a  Director  in  the  North  Shore 
and  Evanston  Street  Railroad  Company. 

Companion  Newlin  was  married  November  7,  1877, 
to  Miss  Annie  Rogers  Brewster,  of  Philadelphia.  He 
leaves  surviving  him  his  widow  and  a  daughter,  Mary 
Brewster  Newlin,  both  now  residing  in  Chicago.  He 
belonged  to  Skerrett  Lodge,  No.  343,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

He  died  April  2,   1900,  at  Chicago,  Illinois. 

The  members  of  your  committee  have  enjoyed  close 
business  and  friendly  relations  with  our  departed  Com- 
panion for  many  years,  and  our  personal  feelings  mingle 
with  the  regret  of  the  Order.  We  miss  a  Companion, 
we  mourn  a  friend. 

This  was  a  good  man.  His  prominent  characteristic 
was  innate,  constant,  persistent  goodness;  and  while 
greatness  may  be  more  spectacular  in  the  sight  of  men, 
for  time  and  eternity  goodness  is  the  better  attribute. 
He  was  a  good  son,  husband,  father,  brother,  friend. 
"A  good  officer,"  say  his  companions  in  arms,  "  as  brave 
as  he  was  careful  of  the  men  under  him."  Only  good 
men  can  be  brave,  and  only  brave  men  can  be  good. 
Within  his  means  he  gave  liberally,  and  the  needy  could 
command  of  him  all  proper  assistance.  The  winter  storm 
was  never  so  severe  that  he  did  not  visit  and  comfort  the 


514  MEMORIALS. 

afflicted,  and  the  night  was  never  too  long  to  stay  his 
ministrations.  He  was  an  honest  man.  Hundreds  of 
thousands  of  dollars  passed  through  his  hands  annually, 
and  he  accounted  for  every  cent  without  supposing  he 
was  doing  anything  beyond  his  ordinary  duty.  This  was 
a  good  man,  pure  in  thought  and  language,  earnest  in 
his  life,  and  withal  filled  with  the  true  spirit  of  piety. 

Stricken  from  life  almost  in  an  instant,  with  but  just 
time  to  realize  that  the  hand  of  death  was  upon  him,  he 
was,  nevertheless,  given  strength  to  calmly  bid  farewell 
to  wife  and  daughter,  and  in  audible  tones  to  commend 
his  spirit  to  the  Almighty  before  he  passed  into  the 
Beyond. 

Oftentimes,  at  some  great  opera  or  orchestral  per- 
formance, when  the  leader  swings  his  instruments  into 
perfect  harmony,  the  air  seems  filled  with  music,  and  the 
audience  is  enwrapped  in  melody  separate  and  apart  from 
the  performers,  who  seem  only  to  be  pouring  into  the 
musical  atmosphere  other  and  additional  sweet  sounds; 
so  the  atmosphere  surrounding  the  life  and  conduct  of 
our  departed  Companion  seemed  to  be  saturated  with  the 
vital  and  vivifying  spirit  of  beneficence;  and,  after  time 
shall  have  partially  assuaged  the  acuteness  of  their  pres- 
ent grief,  with  the  recollection  of  his  every  kindly  word 
and  deed,  waves  of  love  and  charity,  benevolence  and 
sweet  thoughts,  will  sweep  over  and  upon  his  family,  his 
friends,  his  Companions,  and  envelop  all  in  a  brighter 
hope. 

"It  is  good  to  be  great,  it  is  GREAT  to  be  good." 
"Requiescat  in  pace." 

LE  GRAND  W.    PERCE, 
EDWARD  A.   BLODGETT, 
THEODORE  S.   ROGERS, 

Committee. 


DAVID  PORTER  DEARDOFF. 

First  Lieutenant  Seventy-fotirth  Indiana  Infantry,  United  States 
Volunteers.      Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  April  17,  iqoo. 

liflULE  engaged  in  the  recreation  of  preparing  his 
**H.  lawn  for  spring's  resurrection  into  new  life  of  blade 
and  foliage,  our  Companion,  First  Lieutenant  David 
Porter  Deardoff,  suddenly  lost  consciousness  and  entered 
into  his  final  rest  on  the  evening  of  April  i/th,  at  his 
home  on  Oaken wald  avenue,  Chicago;  his  body  was 
returned  to  mother  earth  at  Goshen,  Indiana,  on  April 
19,  1900. 

Companion  Deardoff  was  born  in  Ashland  County, 
Ohio,  in  January,  1841.  When  he  was  four  years  old 
his  parents  removed  to  Indiana  and  settled  on  a  farm 
near  Goshen.  He  was  reared  on  this  farm  and  attended 

515 


5l6  MEMORIALS. 

the  excellent  schools  of  Goshen.  He  had  prepared  him- 
self for  the  career  of  a  teacher,  having  just  received  his 
teacher's  certificate  when  the  troublous  days  of  1861 
arrived.  His  keen  sense  of  duty  soon  convinced  him 
that  his  place  was  in  the  ranks  of  the  army  to  enforce 
obedience  to  the  laws  of  the  country  and  maintain  its 
unity,  but  he  was  compelled  for  a  time  to  listen  to  the 
earnest  pleadings  of  his  mother  in  opposition.  While 
still  living  at  Goshen  he  at  last  overcame  his  mother's 
objections,  and  enlisted  on  September  9,  1861,  as  private 
in  Company  M,  Second  Indiana  Cavalry  Volunteers.  He 
served  with  this  regiment  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee, 
and  was  with  it  during  its  march  as  the  advance  guard 
of  Buell's  Army  from  Nashville  to  Shiloh,  and  partici- 
pated in  the  pursuit  of  Beauregard's  Army  in  his  hasty 
retreat  from  that  famous  battlefield. 

On  July  9,  1862,  upon  the  organization  of  the  Sev- 
enty-fourth Regiment  of  Indiana  Volunteers,  he  was 
commissioned  as  Second  Lieutenant  of  Company  E;  was 
promoted  August  21,  1862,  to  First  Lieutenant,  and  was 
mustered  out  as  such  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  in  June, 
1865,  with  his  regiment,  having  served  honorably  and 
faithfully  three  years  and  nine  months. 

On  May  i,  1865,  Governor  Morton  commissioned  him 
as  Captain,  but  he  was  never  mustered  into  the  United 
States  service  under  this  rank,  although  performing  the 
duties  of  the  office  for  several  months. 

He  participated  in  all  the  campaigns  of  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland  from  its  organization  up  to  and  includ- 
ing the  battle  of  Chickamauga,  where  he  received  a  gun- 
shot wound  through  the  neck,  late  on  Saturday  afternoon, 
September  19,  1863,  and  was  carried  from  the  field,  it 
was  feared  only  to  die;  he  however  overcame  the  effects 
of  his  injury,  and  we  find  him  a  few  months  after  the 


MEMORIALS. 

Chickamauga  fight  again  in  the  performance  of  his  line 
of  duty. 

During  1864  he  was  kept  on  detached  service  most  of 
the  time,  principally  on  court  martial  duty,  at  Nashville, 
as  his  injuries  had  seriously  affected  his  ability  for  field 
service;  he  rejoined  his  regiment  at  Goldsboro,  North 
Carolina,  April  8,  1865. 

All  who  knew  him  are  aware  that  he  carried  the  re- 
sults of  his  wound  with  him  and  suffered  from  it  through- 
out the  years  that  followed.  His  impaired  voice  and 
speech  were  constant  involuntary  reminders  of  the  sacri- 
fice made  by  him  in  defense  of  his  country;  and  yet  this 
was  almost  the  only  way  in  which  he  ever  referred  to  his 
service.  He  rarely  ever  voluntarily  alluded  to  it;  boast- 
fulness  or  ostentation  and  self-consciousness  were  un- 
known to  his  retiring  and  modest  nature. 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1876,  where  he  entered  the 
employment  of  the  wholesale  dry  goods  house  of  Carson, 
Pirie,  Scott  &  Company,  with  which  he  remained  con- 
nected until  the  day  of  his  death. 

The  firm  pays  the  following  tribute  to  his  memory: 
"He  was  with  us  nearly  twenty-five  years  as  a  salesman, 
and  during  the  whole  time  he  enjoyed  the  respect  and 
friendship  of  his  employers,  his  business  associates  and 
a  large  number  of  merchants  throughout  the  country. 
He  was  a  man  of  high  character  and  always  stood  for  the 
right.  He  had  the  interests  of  his  employers  thoroughly 
at  heart  and  was  zealous  and  conscientious  in  their  pro- 
motion." 

In  1875  Companion  Deardoff  was  joined  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Carrie  Child,  in  Goshen,  Indiana.  There  were 
born  to  them  three  daughters;  Agnes,  now  Mrs.  H.  G. 
Bishop,  wife  of  Lieutenant  Bishop  of  the  Army,  who 
joined  her  husband  in  the  Philippines,  where  he  is  now 


5l8  MEMORIALS. 

serving;  Miss  Anne  Elizabeth  and  Miss  Abigail,  who  with 
the  widow  share  their  bereavement  at  their  home. 

He  became  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Commandery  of 
the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United 
States,  on  May  13,  1897,  his  insignia  being  number 
1 1,886.  He  was  identified  with  it  less  than  three  years, 
but  was  so  very  regular  in  his  attendance  during  this 
period,  upon  all  meetings,  that  he  became  one  of  its 
best  known  Companions. 

While  we,  his  Companions,  deplore  the  vacancy  in 
our  ranks,  we  desire  especially  to  express  our  sympathy 
to  the  bereaved  widow  and  daughters  in  their  great  loss 
and  deep  affliction. 

LAFAYETTE  MCWILLIAMS, 
CHARLES  S.   BENTLEY, 
CHARLES  E.   KOCH, 

Committee. 


JOHN  EDWIN  HOWARD. 

Captain,     Commissary    of  Subsistence    and  Brevet    Major,    United 
States   Volunteers.     Died  at  Chicago,   Illinois,   April  25,  igoo. 

OUR  Companion,  John  Edwin  Howard,  was  born  at 
Brockville,  Canada,  August  7,  1827,  and  died  at 
Chicago,  Illinois,  April  25,  1900.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Captain  and  Commissary  of  Subsistence,  United 
States  Volunteers,  November  26,  1862,  at  which  time 
he  was  serving  in  the  field  as  a  civilian  employe  in  the 
Quartermaster's  Department,  and  notice  of  his  appoint- 
ment did  not  reach  him  until  February  11,  1863,  when 
he  accepted,  was  mustered  into  the  service,  and  at 
once  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  office.  He  was 
stationed  at  various  places  in  Missouri  and  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Gulf,  also  saw  service  in  the  field,  and 

519 


52O  MEMORIALS. 

performed  every  duty  entrusted  to  him  with  that  rare 
fidelity  which  was  one  of  his  distinguished  characteristics, 
so  that  when,  August  17,  1865,  he  was  brevetted  Major, 
United  States  Volunteers,  "for  efficient  and  meritorious 
services,"  the  recognition  was  well  deserved.  He  was 
honorably  mustered  out  of  service,  August  22,  1865. 

Of  his  life  before  and  since  the  war,  previous  to  his 
election  as  a  member  of  this  Order,  through  this  Com- 
mandery,  June  9,  1892,  we  know  little,  beyond  the  fact 
that  he  had  been  blessed  with  the  joys  and  sorrows  of 
married  life  and  fatherhood,  had  known  comparative 
wealth  and  poverty,  and  when  he  came  to  us  was  alone 
in  the  world,  save  for  a  few,  far  distant,  loving  relatives. 
His  trials  had  not  embittered  him;  he  was  always  bright, 
genial,  gentle  and  courteous,  and,  to  the  last,  he  showed 
indomitable  pluck  and  determination.  His  life  on  earth 
ended  suddenly,  as  he  had  wished  it  might,  and  as  we 
laid  his  mortal  remains  to  rest  in  the  beautiful  cemetery 
of  Graceland  on  a  bright  sunny  afternoon  and  strewed 
flowers  upon  his  grave,  we  felt  and  believed  that  he  had 
entered  into  that  "peace  of  God  which  passeth  all 
understanding." 

WILLIAM  TODD, 
JOSEPH  J.   SIDDALL, 
CHARLES  T.   HOTCHKISS, 

Committee. 


SAMUEL  CRAIG  PLUMMER. 

Major   and  Surgeon    Thirteenth   Illinois   Infantry,     United    States 
Volunteers.     Died  at  Rock  Island,   Illinois,   Afril  29,  iqoo. 

OUR  late    Companion,    Dr.   Samuel  Craig    Plummer, 
died  at  his  home  in  Rock   Island,  Illinois,   on   the 
2Qth  day   of   April,    1900.      His   health   had  been 
gradually  failing  for  a  year  past,  although  he   had   been 
able  to  attend  to  his  professional  labor  until  within  a  few 
weeks  of  his  death. 

It  may  be  said  he  died  in  the    fullness  of   years  and 

from  sheer  exhaustion  of  physical  strength  and  activity. 

He  was  in  full  possession  of  all  his  mental  faculties, 

and  conscious  of  his  surroundings  until  a  very  short  time 

before  his  decease. 

The  Doctor  was  born  April  10,   1821,  at  Salem  Cross 

521 


522  MEMORIALS. 

Roads,  Westmoreland  County,  Pennsylvania,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  a  few  days  over  seventy-nine  years 
of  age. 

His  paternal  line  of  ancestry,  in  America,  extended 
back  to  one  Francis  Plummer,  who  emigrated  in  1733 
from  England  and  settled  at  Newbury,  in  the  then 
Colony,  now  State  of  Massachusetts. 

The  family  name  and  fame  have  been  well  represented 
since  in  both  civil  and  military  affairs  of  early  Colonial 
times,  as  well  as  in  the  Revolutionary  era  of  1776,  and 
the  subsequent  history  of  this  country. 

The  boyhood  days  of  his  life  were  passed  in  the  home  of 
his  parents  John  B.  and  Elizabeth  Cray  Plummer,  where 
he  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  common  school. 

This  elementary  instruction  was  subsequently  enlarged 
by  an  academic  course  of  study  in  the  preparatory  de- 
partment of  the  Western  Reserve  College,  Ohio;  by  a 
careful  tuition  under  Dr.  Lacassett,  and  attendance  upon 
medical  lectures  at  Cleveland  College,  from  which  insti- 
tution he  received  his  diploma.  It  is  said  that  Dr. 
Plummer  was  the  last  survivor  of  his  college  class. 

Among  the  early  incidents  of  his  professional  career, 
it  may  be  said  that  he  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Cali- 
fornia in  the  days  of  the  first  gold  excitement.  He 
crossed  the  plains  in  1850  and  returned  home  by  way  of 
the  Isthmus  of  Panama  in  1851. 

Dr.  Plummer  was  first  married  on  October  17,  1844, 
to  Julia  Hayes,  of  Burg  Hill,  Ohio,  who  died  October  6, 
1872.  By  this  alliance  there  were  born  five  children — 
three  daughters  and  two  sons — one,  Samuel  C.  Plummer, 
Jr.,  a  prominent  physician  and  surgeon  of  Chicago. 

On  January  9,  1874,  he  again  married,  his  second 
union  being  with  Sarah  Moor  Dawson,  of  Wilmington, 
Pa.,  a  noble  Christian  woman  who  survives  him. 


MEMORIALS.  523 

Dr.  Plummer  left  his  home  in  Rock  Island,  for  Spring- 
field, April,  1 86 1,  and  on  May  2ist  was,  by  Governor 
Yates,  commissioned  Surgeon  of  the  Thirteenth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry  with  the  rank  of  Major.  He  im- 
mediately joined  the  regiment,  then  in  camp  at  Dixon. 
He  served  with  such  conspicuous  ability  during  the  Cam- 
paign of  the  Southwest  under  General  Curtis,  and  after- 
wards in  the  operation  along  the  Mississippi  River, 
culminating  in  the  Campaign  and  Siege  of  Vicksburg, 
that  he  was  appointed  and  served  as  Medical  Director  of 
the  First  Division,  Fifteenth  Army  Corps,  on  the  Staff 
of  General  Osterhaus,  and  subsequently  was  by  General 
Sherman  promoted  to  Surgeon  of  the  Fifteenth  Corps, 
and  in  that  capacity  served  until  after  the  battle  of  Ring- 
gold,  Georgia,  in  November,  1863,  when  he  asked  to  be 
relieved,  joined  his  regiment  and  with  it  was  mustered 
out  of  service  on  the  following  June,  the  term  of  service 
of  the  regiment  having  expired. 

Dr.  Plummer  was  as  conspicuous  for  his  cool,  daring 
courage  as  for  his  ability.  A  kindlier  heart  never  beat 
within  the  breast  of  man.  He  was  the  very  soul  of 
honor,  and  the  affection  and  esteem  in  which  he  was 
held  by  the  soldiers  of  his  regiment  amounted  almost  to 
worship.  Many  times  on  the  march  did  he  dismount 
from  his  horse,  and  after  placing  in  the  saddle  a  footsore 
or  sick  soldier,  would  trudge  along  beside  him.  His 
companionship  was  an  inspiration  and  his  friendship  a 
benediction. 

Having  closed  his  military  career  he  returned  to  his 
home  at  Rock  Island,  where  he  practiced  his  profession 
until  he  answered  the  final  roll  call.  He  was  an  active 
and  honored  member  of  many  medical,  fraternal  and 
military  organizations.  As  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  his  Christian  character  will  linger  long  in  the 


524  MEMORIALS. 

memory  of  his  associates  and  friends,  and  his  influence 
for  good  will  be  felt  and  appreciated  as  the  years  go  on. 
The  Companions  of  this  Commandery  will  sadly  miss 
his  genial  and  loving  presence,  and  we  shall  revere  him 
as  one  who  was  true  and  loyal  to  his  family,  his  friends, 
his  country  and  his  God. 

To  the  bereaved  wife   and   children  we  extend   our 
sincere  sympathy. 

JOHN  D.  CRABTREE, 
JAMES  G.  EVEREST, 
DAVID  H.  LAW, 

Committee. 


EVERELL  FLETCHER  BUTTON. 

Lieiitenant  Colonel  One   Hundred  and  Fifth  Illinois   Infantry   and 

Brevet  Brigadier  General,   United  States   Volunteers.     Died  at 

Sycamore,  Illinois,  June  8.  igoo. 

I  HE  life  of  General  Everell  F.  Dutton  may  be  epito- 
^  mized, — that  he  was  born  in  Sullivan  County,  New 
Hampshire,  and  at  the  age  of  eight  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Sycamore,  Illinois,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death.  He  responded  to  the  first  call  of  President  Lin- 
coln for  volunteers,  and  entered  the  service  as  First 
Lieutenant  Company  F,  Thirteenth  Illinois.  He  after- 
wards assisted  in  raising  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifth 
Illinois,  of  which  he  was  Major,  and  later  became  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel,  and  was  appointed  Brevet  Brigadier 
General  by  the  President  for  gallantry  and  meritorious 
service  in  the  field. 

525 


526  MEMORIALS. 

After  the  close  of  the  war,  he  returned  to  his  home 
and  was  elected  County  Clerk.  In  1877,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State,  and  a 
year  later,  Clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court  for  the  Northern 
Grand  Division  of  Illinois.  Later,  in  1883,  he  became 
President  of  the  National  Bank  in  his  city.  He  was 
married  in  1863  to  Miss  Rosina  A.  Payne,  of  Herkimer 
County,  New  York.  Two  sons  were  born  to  him,  both 
of  whom  have  entered  upon  a  useful  career  in  life.  He 
passed  away  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  June  8, 
1900,  and  was  laid  to  his  final  rest,  mid  the  mourning  of 
his  wide  circle  of  acquaintances  and  friends,  with  appro- 
priate honors. 

How  poor  and  inadequate  does  this  brief  epitome  ap- 
pear as  a  portrayal  of  the  life  and  character  of  this  noble, 
brave  and  generous  man;  yet  how  shall  be  recorded  the 
generous  impulses  of  his  soul — the  humanity  that  ever 
characterized  him,  or  the  noble,  manly  and  social  quali- 
ties that  won  the  love  and  esteem  of  all  who  came  within 
the  circle  of  his  influence.  How  poor  is  human  language 
to  portray  the  emotions  which  come  with  memory  of  his 
kindly  care  for  his  comrades,  for  the  feeble  and  helpless, 
and  the  generous  impulses  which  accorded  to  all  men  the 
same  rights  that  he  demanded  for  himself.  Those  under 
his  command,  and  his  associates  in  arms,  remember  with 
pride  his  quick  appreciation  of  the  duty  of  the  moment, 
his  prompt  execution  of  every  order,  and  his  ever  present 
care  for  the  men  of  his  command,  of  whatever  station 
they  might  be. 

Space  will  necessarily  prevent  entering  upon  a  recital 
of  those  grand  and  heroic  deeds  which  marked  him  as 
born  to  command,  and  which  inspired  confidence  and 
courage,  in  the  hour  of  peril,  in  every  heart.  It  may  be 
said  of  him,  that  whether  performing  the  clerical  office 


MEMORIALS.  $2? 

of  the  positions  which  he  filled,  or  as  a  legislator,  or  as 
a  commander,  by  his  strong  personality,  indomitable 
courage  and  bearing,  the  clear  perception  of  duty  and 
far-reaching  logical  conclusions,  he  won  the  hearts  and 
confidence  of  an  ever-increasing  circle  of  admirers  and 
friends.  In  private  life  he  was  just  and  generous,  and 
ever  regardful  of  the  rights  of  others;  in  public  life  he 
was  punctilious  in  the  discharge  of  every  duty,  and 
faithful  to  every  obligation;  he  was  in  all  affairs  a  wise 
counsellor  and  an  efficient  and  trustful  friend. 

Once  again,  one  of  the  bright  ones  of  earth  has  pushed 
aside  the  portiere  that  divides  the  limitless  eternity  of  the 
past  from  the  no  less  limitless  eternity  of  the  future,  and 
left  a  void. in  the  aching  hearts  of  friends  that  can  never 
be  filled  this  side  of  eternity.  We  have  gathered  around 
the  little  mound  that  marks  where  we  have  laid  him,  and 
we  know  that  the  snows  will  come  and  cover  that  mound 
with  its  white  mantle,  and  so  fructify  the  soil  that  verdure 
shall  spring  up  on  it;  the  birds  will  carol  in  the  branches 
above  his  grave,  the  busy  tide  of  commerce  will  go  on, 
and  the  tramp  of  the  innumerable  caravan  of  humanity 
will  march  on,  to  lay  down  beside  him,  but  we  know 
that  he  is  not  there.  That  which  we  knew  as  his  proud 
form  lies  in  the  sheet  that  wraps  his  mouldering  clay, 
but  he  is  not  there.  He  stands  upon  the  vantage  ground 
where  he  views  the  past  and  the  future,  clothed  upon 
with  every  kindly  word,  every  generous  and  heroic  deed 
of  his  life;  and  oh!  how  resplendent  he  is,  thus  clad,  as 
he  stands  ready  to  meet  and  welcome  the  coming  of  his 
King  and  Lord. 

And  so  we  leave  him,  trusting  in  that  beneficence  that 
has  said  that  He  marks  even  the  sparrow's  fall.  And  if 
it  be,  that  he  who  feedeth  the  hungry,  clothes  the  naked, 
ministers  to  the  sick  and  those  in  distress,  who  performs 


528  MEMORIALS. 

every  kindly  duty  to  himself,  his  country  and  his  kind, 
in  the  name  of  the  Master,  shall  hear  the  welcome  plaudit, 
"Well  done,"  we  may  well  believe  that  this  loving, 
humane,  affectionate,  brave  and  noble  man  has  entered 
upon  a  life  the  fruition  of  which  rests  upon  the  prom- 
ises of  his  God. 

HENRY  A.   PEARSONS, 
THEODORE   S.   ROGERS, 
DOUGLAS  HAPEMAN, 

Committee. 


MARTIN  JAMES  RUSSELL. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Twenty-third  Illinois  Infantry,  United 

States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Mackinac  Island, 

Michigan,  June  25,  iqoo. 

JUT  ARTIN  J.    RUSSELL  was   bora   in   Chicago,    De- 

j  '  I        cember  20,  1845,  and  his  home  was  always  here. 

^"   He  died  at  Mackinac  Island,  Michigan,  whither 

he  had  gone  for  rest  and  to  recuperate  a  constitution 

broken  by  long  continued  overwork,  June  25,   1900. 

His  father  was  of  heroic  fibre,  and  lost  his  life  at  the 
post  of  duty,  Captain  of  a  sailing  vessel,  in  a  terrible 
storm  upon  Lake  Michigan.  His  mother,  the  sister  of 
the  famous  General  James  A.  Mulligan,  shared  his  lofty 
patriotism  and  undaunted  valor,  and  gave  to  her  son 
amply  of  these  characteristics. 

529 


53°  MEMORIALS. 

In  the  public  schools  of  our  city,  the  widow's  son 
availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  to  obtain  the  begin- 
nings of  an  education  which  opened  wide  to  his  clear 
and  strong  mind  the  doors  of  learning. 

In  response  to  the  first  call  of  President  Lincoln  for 
troops  to  defend  the  flag,  the  patriot  Mulligan,  in  April, 
1 86 1,  began  in  Chicago,  the  enlistment  of  the  men  and 
boys,  of  Irish  descent  for  the  most  part,  who  were  will- 
ing to  give  their  all,  their  lives  and  sacred  honor  in  de- 
fense of  the  land  they  loved. 

Young  Russell,  then  a  mere  school  boy,  accompanied 
his  uncle  and  his  "  Irish  Brigade"  to  St.  Louis,  Jefferson 
City  and  Lexington,  and  though  not  then  "an  enlisted 
man,"  he  yet  shared  in  the  duties  and  privations  of  the 
Union  troops  at  and  during  the  Siege  of  Lexington,  serv- 
ing as  a  volunteer  aid  upon  the  Staff  of  Colonel  Mulligan. 
He  was  made  a  prisoner  of  war,  but  on  the  showing  that 
his  name  was  not  upon  the  muster  rolls,  he  was  released 
and  permitted  to  return  to  his  home. 

The  surrender  of  Lexington  after  a  most  heroic  de- 
fense, which  brought  to  Colonel  Mulligan  and  his  com- 
mand only  the  highest  commendation  and  praise,  was 
followed  by  the  muster  out  of  the  Irish  Brigade  by  order 
of  General  Fremont.  Mulligan,  impatient  to  be  again 
in  the  service,  soon  obtained  from  Washington  authority 
to  recruit  a  new  command,  the  Twenty-third  Illinois 
Volunteers.  Companion  Russell  was  made  a  Second 
Lieutenant  in  Company  A  of  this  regiment. 

The  new  regiment  was  ordered  to  Annapolis,  Mary- 
land. After  a  brief  stop  there,  it  proceeded  to  New  Creek 
to  intercept  and  prevent  General  Early's  army  from  en- 
tering Petersburgh.  It  had  many  brushes  with  General 
Early  and  also  with  Stewart's  cavalry.  Meantime  Lieu- 
tenant Russell  having  been  promoted  First  Lieutenant 


MEMORIALS.  531 

was  detached  from  his  company  and  placed  upon  the 
Staff  of  the  Colonel. 

To  Colonel  Mulligan's  Brigade  was  assigned  the  im- 
portant duty  to  harrass  General  Lee's  army  on  his  retreat 
from  Gettysburg. 

To  tell  of  all  the  service  done  by  the  command  with 
which  Companion  Russell  was  connected  during  the 
bloody  days  of  1862,  1863  and  1864,  is  not  needed,  and 
to  do  so  would  require  space  too  great  for  this  memorial. 
Truer  and  braver  men  were  not  in  the  army  of  the  Union 
than  those  in  the  Brigade  of  which  Russell  was  Acting 
Assistant  Adjutant  General.  When  General  Crook  moved 
against  the  army  of  General  Early,  Mulligan  was  in  com- 
mand of  a  division.  The  fighting  was  constant  and  severe. 
It  culminated  at  Winchester,  when  his  heroic  soul  passed 
from  the  battlefield  to  ' '  Fame's  eternal  camping  ground. " 

Companion  Russell  remained  in  the  service  until  Sep- 
tember 19,  1864,  when  he  was  honorably  mustered  out. 

Returning  to  Chicago,  he  soon  became  connected 
with  journalism,  for  which  he  had  a  remarkable  talent. 
He  was  a  leading  editorial  writer  upon  the  staff  of  the 
Chicago  Times  in  the  days  of  that  paper's  greatest 
power  and  excellence.  An  intimate  editorial  associate 
says  of  him:  "He  virtually  organized  the  Chicago 
Herald  and  left  the  service  of  that  paper  on  a  point 
of  principle.  Then  he  again  became  connected  with 
the  J^imes  under  the  late  Carter  H.  Harrison,  Sr. ,  and 
severed  his  connection  finally  with  that  journal  on  a 
point  of  personal  honor.  As  chief  writer  for  the  Times, 
he  would  not  allow  the  controlling  power  to  misrepresent 
his  sentiments  in  regard  to  a  presidential  aspirant.  Few 
men  would  have  been  so  punctilious  in  a  matter  of  im- 
personal writing,  but  such  was  Martin  J.  Russell,  true  to 
principle  regardless  of  all  consequences." 


532  MEMORIALS. 

From  the  day  of  his  entrance  into  the  journalistic 
field,  he  was  recognized  not  only  as  a  writer  of  unsur- 
passed force,  clearness  and  classic  elegance  of  diction, 
but  as  a  high-minded  patriotic  citizen,  who  would  say  no 
word  and  do  no  act  that  was  dishonest  or  insincere. 

He  became  widely  known,  and  had  he  desired  politi- 
cal preferment  no  question  but  his  popularity  was  such 
that  he  might  have  been  chosen  for  almost  any  office 
within  the  gift  of  the  people.  One  position  alone  was 
he  willing  to  accept,  that  of  South  Park  Commissioner, 
to  which  unsolicited  he  was  appointed  as  the  unanimous 
choice  of  the  Judges  of  the  Circuit  Court.  For  more 
than  a  decade  he  gave  rare  intelligence  and  persistent 
attention  to  the  highly  important  duties  of  this  place, 
and  it  is  no  exaggeration  to  say,  that  no  citizen  of  Chi- 
cago contributed  more  valuable  service  to  the  community 
than  did  he  as  a  member  of  that  Board.  A  zealous  mem- 
ber of  the  Democratic  organization,  he  would  brook  no 
effort  to  use  the  money  or  the  servants  of  the  public  to 
promote  a  partisan  end.  So  valuable  was  his  service, 
that  it  was  only  because  of  his  resignation  of  the  place 
upon  his  appointment  by  President  Cleveland  to  be  Col- 
lector of  the  Port  of  Chicago  (which  rendered  him  legally 
disqualified  to  continue  a  Park  Commissioner),  that  the 
Judges  reluctantly  appointed  another  in  his  place. 

The  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Chicago  has  always  been 
deemed  in  an  especial  manner,  the  personal  representa- 
tive of  the  President.  Such  was  Companion  Russell, 
the  personal  friend  and  official  representative  of  President 
Cleveland.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  no  important  action 
was  taken  by  President  Cleveland  in  the  West,  and  espe- 
cially in  Chicago,  except  after  a  full  and  ample  conference 
with  his  Collector  of  the  Port.  Neither  the  Chief  Execu- 
tive, nor  the  country,  ever  had  cause  to  regret  this  close 


MEMORIALS.  5  33 

intimacy, — trust  and  confidence  on  the  one  side,  wisdom 
and  fidelity  on  the  other. 

He  was  genial  and  lovable  by  nature,  and  no  man 
who  came  within  the  charm  of  his  personal  influence 
could  fail  to  become  an  admirer  and  friend.  He  pos- 
sessed a  rare  and  pleasing  humor,  a  gift  in  conversation 
which  made  him  as  easily  the  center  of  every  circle  in 
which  he  found  himself  as  was  Dr.  Johnson  himselfr 
whom  in  some  of  the  latter's  more  admirable  aspects  he 
resembled. 

In  1873,  he  married  Miss  Cecilia  C.  Walsh  of  this 
city,  "an  event  that  crowned  his  active  and  honorable 
life  with  the  blossoms  of  perfect  domestic  happiness." 
His  wife  and  nine  children,  James  C.  (now  a  member  of 
the  First  Class  in  Succession  in  this  Order),  Katherine, 
Martin  C. ,  Louis,  Genie,  Irene,  William  Amberg,  Ruth 
and  Cecilia,  survive  him,  and  as  has  been  well  said: 
"have  in  his  bright  career  and  honored  memory  heir- 
looms more  precious  than  material  gems." 

A  consistent  and  devout  member  of  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic Church,  he  gave  friendship  and  respect  to  all  whose 
lives  were  upright  and  clean  of  whatever  faith,  or  of  none. 

To  his  widow,  our  sister,  and  to  his  children,  whose 
happiness  and  growth  into  usefulness  and  honor  shall 
ever  be  of  concern  to  the  members  of  this  Military  Order, 
in  which  he  was  proud  to  claim  membership,  we  tender 
the  sympathy  of  men  who  shared  with  him  a  soldier's  life 
and  patriot  service,  who  loved  and  honored  him,  and 
who  now  await  with  resignation  the  hour  which  shall 
summon  them  to  join  "the  innumerable  caravan"  of 
comrades  and  companions  gone  before. 

RICHARD  S.  TUTHILL, 
MICHAEL  W.  PHALEN, 
JOHN  J.  ABERCROMBIE, 

Committee* 


JOHN  MASON  LOOM1S. 

Colonel  Twenty  -sixth   Illinois   Infantry,    United   States    Volunteers. 
Died  at   Chicago,   Illinois,   August   2,   iqoo. 


MASON  LOOMIS  was  born  January  5,  1825, 
at  Windsor,  Connecticut.  He  was  descended  from 
**  an  old  English  family,  of  which  Joseph  Loomis,  of 
Braintree,  Essex  County,  England,  was  the  first  to  come 
to  America,  on  July  17,  1638,  settling  in  Boston.  After- 
wards, in  1640,  he  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  in 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  whichihas  remained  ever  since  in 
the  Loomis  family. 

The  parents  of  our  late  Companion  were  .James 
Loomis,  a  native  of  Windsor,  and  Abigail  Sherwood 
Chaffee  Loomis,  of  Greenfield  Hill,  Fairfield  County, 
Connecticut.  James  Loomis  was  a  merchant  and  mill 

534 


MEMORIALS.  535 

owner,  who,  being  a  public  spirited  and  patriotic  man, 
of  military  aptitude  and  skill,  served  for  many  years  as 
Colonel  in  the  First  Regiment  of  Connecticut  State 
Guards.  He  named  his  son,  John  Mason,  after  a  famous 
officer  of  the  Colonial  forces,  distinguished  for  gallantry 
during  the  French  and  Indian  War. 

As  a  youth  our  Companion  received  a  thorough 
academic  education  and  such  a  business  training  as  was 
natural  in  a  thrifty  and  industrious  family.  He  inherited 
all  the  martial  spirit  of  his  ancestry,  and  took  so  active 
a  part  in  the  military  affairs  of  his  locality  that  he 
attained  the  rank  of  Captain  in  the  State  Militia  at  the 
age  of  eighteen.  He  then  applied  for  a  position  in  the 
United  States  Navy  and  received  a  warrant  as  Midship- 
man, but  opportunities  for  active  service  were  so  rare 
then  that  he  awaited  orders  until  further  delay  seemed 
useless.  Being  desirous  of  seeing  something  of  the  world 
he  went  to  sea  in  the  ship  "Huntress,"  a  merchant 
vessel  engaged  in  the  East  India  trade,  visiting  China, 
the  Philippines  and  other  countries.  On  his  return  he 
came  to  Chicago  in  1845,  then  he  went  to  Milwaukee, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  with  M.  W. 
Clark  &  Co. 

He  was  married  in  1849,  to  Miss  Mary  Hunt,  daughter 
of  Milo  Hunt,  of  Sherburne,  Chenango  County,  New 
York.  He  leaves  her  now  surviving  him  as  his  sorrow- 
ing widow. 

In  1852  he  transferred  the  main  portion  of  the  lumber 
business  to  Chicago,  establishing  it  under  the  firm  name 
of  Loomis  &  Ludington  at  the  corner  of  Madison  and 
Market -streets.  He  also  maintained  a  branch  thereof 
at  Twelfth  street  bridge. 

Soon  after  settling  in  Chicago  Mr.  Loomis  began  to 
take  an  active  interest  in  the  organization  of  the  Chicago 


536  MEMORIALS. 

Light  Guard,  which  became  a  very  popular  and  efficient 
military  body,  of  which  he  was  elected  an  officer.  At 
the  breaking  out  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he  clearly 
foresaw  that  a  serious  conflict  was  inevitable,  and  there- 
fore promptly  exerted  himself  in  raising  a  regiment  o'f 
carefully  selected  men.  He  was  so  successful  in  this 
that  it  was  quickly  filled  up.  Owing  to  his  proficiency 
in  military  science  he  was  tendered  the  command  of  this 
fine  body  of  men,  which  he  promptly  accepted,  and  they 
were  mustered  into  the  service  of  the  United  States  as 
the  Twenty-sixth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  on  August 
i,  1861. 

Colonel  Loomis  thereupon  bade  farewell  to  his 
prosperous  business  and  comfortable  home,  entering 
upon  the  arduous  campaign  which  he  clearly  saw  before 
him,  with  all  the  earnestness  of  true  patriotism.  His 
varied  experiences  had  given  him  a  keen  knowledge  of 
men;  his  technical  skill  and  indomitable  personal  courage 
had  in  other  respects  so  well  fitted  him  for  the  under- 
taking that  it  soon  became  manifest  that  he  was  a  born 
leader,  quite  equal  to  all  the  emergencies  of  warfare. 
His  command  quickly  became  animated  with  the  spirit 
of  the  leader,  so  that  the  war  record  of  the  regiment 
became  most  honorable  and  brilliant.  It  participated 
in  fifty-seven  battles  or  skirmishes,  and  the  marches 
made  during  the  three  years  of  its  service  amounted  to 
over  sixty-nine  hundred  miles. 

When  the  regiment  returned  to  Springfield,  Illinois, 
for  re-enlistment,  it  was  most  enthusiastically  received, 
and  Governor  Richard  Yates  then  said: 

"When  I  selected  Colonel  Loomis  as  the  command- 
ing officer  of  the  regiment,  it  was  not  because  he  had 
raised  it.  I  selected  him  because  of  his  ability  to  com- 
mand, for  his  military  talent,  and  for  his  devotion  to  his 


MEMORIALS.  537 

country;  and  I  was  not  mistaken  in  the  man.  He  has 
proved  equal  to  the  emergency.  The  names  of  New 
Madrid,  of  Island  Number  Ten,  of  luka,  Corinth,  Farming- 
ton,  Vicksburg,  Jackson,  Tunnel  Hill,  and  Chattanooga, 
which  are  inscribed  upon  its  battle-scarred  flags,  and 
upon  those  fields  which  its  valor  won,  afford  ample 
evidence  of  the  valuable  service  which  was  performed 
there.  We  have  watched  you  through  long  and  tedious 
marches,  through  sufferings  and  trials.  In  that  memorable 
battle  of  Tunnel  Hill  we  saw  you  march  undismayed  at 
the  head  of  the  army  and  receive  for  your  valor  the  praise 
of  your  commanding  generals,  Grant  and  Sherman." 

His  fitness  for  leadership,  and  his  executive  ability 
must  have  been  quickly  discerned  by  his  superior  officers, 
for  it  appears  that  during  his  service  in  the  field  he  was 
most  of  the  time  either  acting  with  his  regiment  as  an 
independent  command  or  was  in  command  of  a  brigade 
or  a  division.  He  served  in  the  Second  Division,  Army 
of  the  Mississippi;  Second  Division,  Thirteenth  Army 
Corps;  First  Division,  Sixteenth  Army  Corps;  Fourth 
Division,  Fifteenth  Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee. 

With  the  Twenty-sixth  Illinois  Infantry  Volunteers 
he  exercised  an  independent  command  in  Northern 
Missouri  in  the  year  1861,  and  until  February,  1862. 

Commanded  the  First  Brigade,  Second  Division, 
Army  of  the  Mississippi,  in  1862. 

Commanded  the  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division, 
Thirteenth  Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  in  1862. 

Commanded  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Six- 
teenth Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  in  1863. 

Commanded  the  First  Division,  Sixteenth  Army 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  in  1863. 

Commanded  the  First  Brigade,  Fourth  Division,  Fif- 
teenth Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  1863,  1864. 


538  MEMORIALS. 

Commanded  a  Division  composed  of  Colonel  Burch- 
beck's  Brigade,  Eleventh  Army  Corps,  Army  of  the 
Potomac,  and  his  own  First  Brigade,  Fourth  Division, 
Fifteenth  Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  at 
Chattanooga,  and  on  the  right  in  General  W.  T.  Sher- 
man's attack  on  Missionary  Ridge. 

Commanded  the  rear  guard  of  the  Thirteenth  Army 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  December,  1 862,  to  January, 
1863,  from  Oxford,  Mississippi,  to  LaGrange,  Tennessee. 

He  participated  in  the  engagements  at  New  Madrid, 
Point  Pleasant,  Farmington,  Vicksburg,  Mission  Ridge, 
Holly  Springs,  Mississippi,  Island  Number  Ten,  Siege  of 
Corinth,  Smith's  Farm,  Jackson,  Relief  of  Knoxville, 
LaGrange,  Tennessee. 

Was  Commandant  of  Post  at  Oxford,  Mississippi. 

He  was  recommended  for  promotion  to  Brigadier 
General  by  General  U.  S.  Grant,  in  December,  1862; 
by  General  W.  T.  Sherman  in  December,  1863,  and 
again  by  General  U.  S.  Grant,  in  April,  1864. 

For  some  unexplained  reason,  to  the  regret  of  his 
many  friends,  he  never  received  the  promotion,  to  which 
he  was  justly  entitled. 

In  the  St.  Louis  Globe  Democrat  there  recently 
appeared  a  notice  of  General  H.  V.  Boynton's  address 
to  the  Army  and  Navy  Club,  concerning  the  Chatta- 
nooga Campaign,  which  stated  that: 

"The  audience  embraced  distinguished  ex-Con- 
federates as  well  as  ex-Union  officers,  together  with 
many  officers  of  the  regular  army.  General  Roger  Q. 
Mills  of  Texas  was  one  of  the  ex-Confederates  present. 
His  brigade  was  one  of  the  three  or  four  which  Cleburne 
marched  to  the  northern  end  of  Missionary  Ridge  and 
successfully  pitted  against  Sherman  in  the  hard  fighting 
for  possession  of  Tunnel  Hill. 


MEMORIALS.  539 

' '  When  General  Boynton  had  concluded  his  talk  Gen- 
eral Mills  showed  on  the  map  where  his  brigade  had 
fought. 

"  'There  was  an  incident,'  he  said,  'connected  with 
that  battle  which  I  recollect  very  distinctly.  I  am  not 
able  to  tell  it  all,  and  perhaps  some  one  here  can  com- 
plete the  story  with  the  name  of  the  officer.  Down  be- 
low where  we  lay  on  Tunnel  Hill  was  a  large  open  field. 
Beyond  that  were  some  woods.  A  Federal  brigade  came 
through  the  woods  and  out  into  the  open  field.  There 
the  troops  re-formed  their  lines.  The  officer  in  com- 
mand was  perfectly  cool.  He  took  his  time,  and  the 
troops  formed  as  if  they  were  on  dress  parade.  They 
were  within  easy  range  and  we  fired  into  them.  They 
broke  and  went  back  into  the  woods.  In  a  few  minutes 
they  came  back  and  formed  again  in  the  same  deliberate 
way.  When  the  officer  in  command  had  got  them  formed 
to  suit  him,  he  made  them  lie  down,  while  he  rode  up  and 
down  the  front,  as  if  waiting  for  orders.  General  Hardee 
came  up  to  my  brigade  while  we  were  firing  on  them  and 
said:  '  Stop  shooting  at  those  men.  It's  murder.' 

"  'We  stopped.  Some  time  afterward  I  talked  with 
McDowell  about  Hardee's  order,  and  asked  him  what  he 
thought  of  the  situation.  He  said:  '  It  was  not  murder; 
it  was  war.' 

"  '  Hardee  was  an  officer  of  the  regular  army;  he  had 
fought  under  the  flag,  and  I  suppose  he  couldn't  stand 
seeing  it  fired  on  when  carried  by  such  brave  men.  The 
way  that  brigade  and  its  commander  acted  under  fire 
impressed  me,  and  I  have  often  wondered  who  the 
officer  was.' 

"  One  of  the  officers  present  was  able  to  tell  to  whom 
General  Mills's  tribute  of  bravery  applied.  He  was  Gen- 
eral Carman.  After  a  careful  examination  of  the  map 


54°  MEMORIALS. 

General  Carman  decided  that  the  brigade  was  that  of 
General  John  M.  Loomis,  composed  of  the  Twenty-sixth 
and  Nineteenth  Illinois  and  the  Twelfth  and  One  Hun- 
dredth Indiana." 

Colonel  Loomis  resigned  from  the  service  April  30, 
1864,  having  so  greatly  overtaxed  his  powers  of  endur- 
ance that  it  became  imprudent  for  him  to  continue  longer 
in  the  field. 

Upon  the  return  to  civil  life  after  the  hardships  and 
dangers  of  his  war  service,  Colonel  Loomis  displayed  in 
a  vigorous  manner  the  same  courage  and  skill  that  had 
made  him  conspicuous  in  the  field.  He  found  that  his 
former  prosperous  trade  facilities  had  disappeared,  and 
that  his  old  home  had  been  destroyed  by  fire.  He 
immediately  resumed  the  lumber  business,  but  being 
without  any  capital  he  had  to  commence  at  the  begin- 
ning. By  his  diligence  and  good  judgment  he  gradually 
built  up  a  trade  that  became  so  profitable  as  to  make 
him  quite  independent. 

He  acquired  an  interest  in  extensive  pine  lands  near 
Manistee  and  Ludington,  Michigan,  which,  being  wisely 
developed  and  their  products  marketed  with  good  judg- 
ment, afforded  very  large  returns.  The  Pere  Marquette 
Lumber  Company  was  organized  by  him  to  carry  on 
this  branch  of  the  business,  and  he  remained  its  Presi- 
dent to  the  time  of  his  death.  The  sale  of  the  lumber 
in  Chicago  was  managed  by  Colonel  Loomis  and  his 
friend  of  the  war  period,  John  McLaren,  under  the  firm 
name  of  John  Mason  Loomis  &  Company,  up  to  1885, 
when  Colonel  Loomis  withdrew  from  the  active  business 
of  the  firm.  For  over  forty  years  he  had  been  a  leading 
figure  in  this  branch  of  industry,  and  no  man  therein  had 
a  higher  reputation  or  was  more  universally  respected. 

Colonel  Loomis,   though  shrewd  and  thrifty,  was  a 


MEMORIALS.  541 

man  of  generous  nature,  ever  ready  to  respond  to  the 
calls  of  charity,  and  cheerfully  gave  of  his  means  and 
time  to  aid  the  deserving,  or  his  friends  among  the  old 
soldiers  in  their  hours  of  need. 

After  the  great  conflagration  in  1871,  the  work  of  the 
Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society  became  of  great  import- 
ance and  assumed  vast  proportions.  Colonel  Loomis  en- 
tered into  this  with  the  same  zeal  and  masterly  adminis- 
trative powers  that  he  had  shown  in  war  and  in  business. 
He  gave  his  time  and  his  means  freely  to  this  great  work 
during  the  time  when  the  utmost  energy  and  discretion 
were  necessary  to  distribute  properly  the  lavish  aid  which 
was  contributed  from  all  sources  to  the  stricken  com- 
munity. As  one  of  the  officers  of  this  great  charity  he 
rendered  such  efficient  services  that  they  were  made  the 
subject  of  especial  commendatory  resolutions. 

The  desire  of  Colonel  Loomis  so  to  order  his  affairs 
as  to  be  of  the  most  use  to  his  fellow  men,  and  his  good 
judgment  in  the  method  of  accomplishing  this  result,  is 
shown  clearly  in  the  disposition  of  his  estate. 

His  widow  receives  the  income  thereof  during  her 
life,  after  which  the  entire  property — over  one  million 
dollars  in  value — is  to  go  toward  the  maintaining  of  the 
Loomis  Institute  at  his  old  home,  Windsor,  Connecticut, 
which,  as  stated  by  Colonel  Loomis,  is  to  be  "A  shrine 
from  which  boys  and  girls  shall  take  the  highest  inspira- 
tions for  better  and  grander  lives  from  the  best  of  their 
race  who  have  gone  before,  and  like  them,  ever  keeping 
the  banner  of  human  progress,  honor  and  manhood  to 
the  front." 

It  would  seem  probable  that  if  the  beneficiaries  of  the 
Institute  do  this  with  the  fidelity  displayed  by  the  gener- 
ous donor,  that  the  munificent  bequest  will  not  have 
been  made  in  vain. 


542  MEMORIALS. 

Colonel  Loomis  never  lost  his  interest  in  military 
affairs.  He  rendered  efficient  services  to  the  State  Mili- 
tia, raising  large  sums  of  money  therefor  when  it  was  in 
need.  He  always  maintained  the  most  cordial  relations 
with  the  officers  of  the  regular  service,  and  was  instru- 
mental in  the  organization  of  the  Illinois  Commandery 
of  the  Loyal  Legion,  being  one  of  the  charter  members, 
having  been  elected  for  that  purpose  by  the  Pennsylvania 
Commandery,  in  1876.  He  was  Vice-Commander  from 
1880  to  1883,  and  succeeded  General  P.  H.  Sheridan  as 
Commander  in  1884. 

He  was  a  Comrade  of  George  H.  Thomas  Post  No.  5, 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  was  a  man  of 
deep  religious  convictions,  and  was  a  member  of  Grace 
Episcopal  Church,  Chicago. 

He  was  prominent  in  club  circles,  being  a  member  of 
the  Chicago,  Calumet,  Union,  Washington  Park,  and 
Onwentsia  Clubs,  and  in  all  respects  performed  the  duties 
of  a  good  citizen  with  the  fidelity  which  had  ever  char- 
acterized his  acts  during  a  long,  active  and  eventful  life. 

JOHN  MCLAREN, 
EPHRAIM  A.  OTIS, 
HORATIO  L.  WAIT, 

Committee 


PETER  GUY  GARDNER. 

First  Lieutenant  Fifteenth  Ohio  Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Lake  Villa,  Illinois,  August  J,  1900. 

QETER  GUY  GARDNER  was  born  in  Dresden,  Ohio, 

^C       1842;  was  the  second  of  four  children  of  Adam  and 

*  Elizabeth  Gardner,  and  was  brought  up  near  the 

family  homestead,  serving  an  apprenticeship  to  a  farmer 

in  that  locality. 

Companion  Gardner's  mother  died  when  he  was  but 
four  years  of  age,  and  his  father  joined  an  Ohio  regiment 
for  service  in  the  Mexican  War.  At  the  age  of  fifteen 
young  Gardner  left  the  farmer's  service  and  during  the 
summer  seasons  worked  as  a  farm  hand.  He  spent  the 
money  so  earned  in  attending  school  during  the  winter 
months. 

543 


544  MEMORIALS. 

April  17,  1 86 1,  at  President  Lincoln's  first  call  for 
troops,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A,  Fifteenth 
Ohio  Infantry,  for  three  months'  service.  At  the  expi- 
ration of  that  time  he  re-enlisted  in  the  same  company 
and  regiment  for  three  years;  was  appointed  Corporal 
March  7,  1862;  Sergeant,  January  i,  1864;  First  Sergeant, 
January  1 6,  1864;  First  Lieutenant,  February  2,  1865. 

Companion  Gardner  went  through  the  entire  cam- 
paign, from  Chattanooga  to  Atlanta,  and  participated  in 
the  engagements  at  Phillipi,  Carrick's  Ford,  Cheat  Moun- 
tain, Shiloh,  Liberty  Gap,  Chickamauga,  Mission  Ridge, 
Resaca,  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Chatta- 
hoochee  River  and  the  Siege  of  Atlanta.  In  June,  1865, 
he  was  sent  to  Western  Texas,  where  he  remained  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  He  received  no  serious  wounds, 
but  the  sword  which  he  leaves  as  a  badge  of  honor  and 
which  has  hung  in  his  house  since  the  close  of  the  war, 
bears  the  imprint  of  a  piece  of  shell  which  struck  it  while 
in  his  hand.  After  the  war  Companion  Gardner  spent  a 
short  time  visiting  his  relatives  at  the  old  home,  and  then 
removed  to  Clinton,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in  the  in- 
surance business.  In  1869  he  removed  to  Chicago,  mak- 
ing the  suburban  town  of  La  Grange  his  home,  and  con- 
tinued in  the  same  business  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  August  5,  1900,  at  Crooked  Lake,  near 
Lake  Villa,  Illinois,  where  he  was  accidentally  drowned 
while  bathing. 

In  June,  1869,  he  married  Miss  Maroa  E.  Conklin,  of 
Darien,  Wisconsin,  who  died  in  1873,  leaving  one  son, 
Charles  A.,  who  died  in  1896,  while  seeking  health  in 
California.  In  October,  1874,  he  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Luella  Humphrey,  of  Chicago,  and  to  them  were 
born  five  children,  three  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  The 
first,  William  R.,  a  young  man  of  much  promise,  died  at 


MEMORIALS.  545 

the  age  of  sixteen;  Eugene,  the  youngest,  now  eighteen 
years  of  age,  and  the  widow,  remain  to  mourn  the  loss 
of  a  kind,  indulgent  father  and  husband. 

Companion  Gardner  always  took  great  interest  in 
civic  societies,  and  especially  with  organizations  growing 
out  of  war  comradeship.  In  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public and  Loyal  Legion,  he  was  always  a  worker,  and 
much  of  his  spare  time  was  devoted  to  the  welfare  of  his 
comrades.  He  organized  Hiram  McClintock  Post,  No. 
667,  of  La  Grange,  Illinois,  and  was  its  Commander  sev- 
eral times,  being  its  Chaplain  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  of  the  United  States,  November  13,  1890,  his  In- 
signia Number  being  8,293.  He  was  very  regular  in  his 
attendance.  Companion  Gardner  was  a  member  of  the 
first  Council  of  the  Village  of  La  Grange  in  1880,  and  in 
1 88 1  and  for  several  terms  officiated  as  President  of  the 
Board.  From  1890  to  1896  he  served  as  President  of 
the  Township  High  School  Board.  For  sixteen  years  he 
was  a  Town  Trustee. 

THEODORE  S.   ROGERS, 
WILLIAM  J.   HEMSTREET, 
WILLIAM  L.   CADLE, 

Committee. 


EDWARD  ROOT  PRICE. 

Sergeant  Ninth  Illinois  Cavalry,    United  States   Volunteers.      Died 
at  Chicago,   Illinois,   August  j,   iqoo. 


ROOT  PRICE  was  born  in  Brattleboro, 
Vermont,  November  5,  1843,  of  Puritan  and  Rev- 
olutionary  ancestry,  and  closed  his  life-work  in  this 
city  August  5,  1900.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  came 
West  with  his  parents  and  settled  in  Chicago,  which 
place  was  his  home  almost  continuously  until  he  died. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  and  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Civil  War  he  was  a  pupil  at  the  High  School 
in  this  city.  In  1861  his  father,  Samuel  Harrison  Price, 
responded  to  the  call  of  his  country,  and  enlisted  in  the 
Ninth  Illinois  Cavalry,  and  was  appointed  Regimental 
Quartermaster.  His  son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 

546 


MEMORIALS.  547 

filled  with  the  patriotic  enthusiasm  of  youth,  imitated 
the  example  of  his  father,  left  school  to  face  the  dangers 
of  the  battlefield  and  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company 
A  in  the  same  regiment.  After  being  mustered  in,  the 
regiment  was  detained  at  Camp  Douglas  for  several 
months  until  ordered  South.  In  the  meantime  measles 
became  epidemic  in  the  camp,  and  this  together  with 
army  privations  filled  the  hospitals,  and  Price  was  among 
the  number  compelled  to  succumb  to  the  disease.  This 
experience  seems  to  have  undermined  his  health  for  all 
the  future  years.  At  last  the  regiment  was  ordered 
South  and  there  was  great  rejoicing  among  the  soldiers, 
as  they  hoped  to  see  actual  service  upon  the  battlefield. 
However,  they  were  stationed  at  Helena,  Arkansas,  under 
the  command  of  Colonel  Brackett  for  many  months  and 
though  they  took  part  in  no  important  engagements  they 
had  many  skirmishes  with  the  enemy.  Being  stationed 
as  they  were  in  the  swampy  regions  of  Arkansas,  many 
of  the  regiment  again  fell  ill,  and  Mr.  Price  became  so 
filled  with  malarial  poison  that  he  was  sent  North  on  a 
furlough.  His  father  also  being  very  sick  came  with 
him,  and  died  a  week  after  his  arrival  in  the  city.  The 
son  returned  to  his  post,  but  his  health  was  so  shattered 
that  he  was  finally  discharged  February  16,  1863,  as 
Sergeant  of  Company  L,  Ninth  Illinois  Cavalry. 

Some  months  after,  he  entered  business  life  and 
enjoyed  its  activities  until  1890,  when  failing  health 
compelled  his  retirement.  He  was  elected  an  Original 
Companion  of  the  First  Class  of  the  Order,  through  the 
Commandery  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  October  9,  1890, 
and  so  far  as  his  health  permitted  was  a  constant  attend- 
ant at  its  meetings  and  devoted  to  its  interests. 

He  was  a  devoted  son,  a  faithful  husband,  a  loving 
and  tender  father,  a  brave  and  patriotic  citizen.  Thus 


548  MEMORIALS. 

again  we  have  been  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  one 
who  though  not  prominent  in  army  life,  nor  engaged 
actively  on  the  battlefield,  was  still  filled  with  patriotism 
that  enabled  him  to  do  his  work  well  wherever  duty  called. 

JOHN  W.  STREETER, 
HORACE  H.  THOMAS, 
HOLMES  HOGE, 

Committee. 


EDWARD  MCALLISTER. 

Captain  First  Illinois  Light  Artillery,   United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Plainfield,  Illinois.  August  25,  iqoo. 

pDWARD  MCALLISTER  was  born  in  Salem,  Wash- 
ington County,  New  York,  on  December  24,  1828, 
^s~*  and  died  in  Plainfield,  Will  County,  Illinois,  on 
August  25,  1900,  in  the  seventy-second  year  of  his  age. 
His  early  years  were  passed  in  the  home  of  his  birth,  and 
his  education  was  almost  wholly  acquired  in  Washington 
Academy,  which  institution  was  founded  in  the  lifetime 
of  his  grandfather,  and  to  whom  its  inception  and  build- 
ing were  largely  due. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-four  the  deceased  came  to  Illi- 
nois, bought  a  farm  about  three  miles  from  Plainfield, 
upon  which  he  made  his  home  during  life.  He  was  de- 
voted to  his  farming  interests,  and  had  expended  a  large 

549 


55°  MEMORIALS. 

sum  of  money  in  tilling  and  otherwise  improving  the  raw 
prairie  soil.  The  farm  eventually  proved  to  be  one  of 
the  best  dairy  farms  in  the  State,  and  the  revenue  was 
sufficiently  large  to  grant  its  owner  a  competency — but 
not  without  his  constant  care  and  attention.  He  was 
daily  devoted  to  his  work,  until  about  one  year  before 
his  death,  when  heart  trouble  forced  him  to  desist. 

Politically  he  was  a  Republican,  and  an  earnest  one, 
frequently  heading  the  delegations  from  his  town;  but  it 
was  with  him  a  devotion  to  principle,  and  not  for  political 
preferment.  He  never  sought  and  never  held  a  political 
office  for  profit. 

As  Captain  Ed.  McAllister,. the  soldier,  his  career  was 
notable.  He  served  as  commanding  officer  of  a  com- 
pany of  State  Militia  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War, 
which  company,  on  April  21,  1861,  was  called  into  active 
service  by  the  old  War  Governor,  Richard  Yates.  This 
company  was  dispatched  to  Cairo,  Illinois,  where  it  was 
mustered  into  the  United  States  service  as  Company  K, 
Tenth  Illinois  Infantry. 

On  September  ist  following,  it  was  transferred  to  and 
became  part  of  the  First  Illinois  Artillery,  but  was  gen- 
erally known  and  officially  recognized  as  "McAllister's 
Battery,"  in  honor  of  its  brave  commander.  The  com- 
pany enlisted  at  first  in  the  three  months'  service,  but 
most  of  its  members  re-enlisted  for  the  war,  and  made 
the  nucleus  of  the  organization  that  fought  gallantly  and 
left  an  enduring  record  in  history.  Its  first  active  en- 
gagement was  at  Fort  Henry,  the  battery,  by  direction 
of  General  Prentiss,  having  remained  in  Fort  Holt,  Ken- 
tucky, in  charge  of  the  fortifications,  until  immediately 
preceding  that  battle.  From  henceforward  this  battery 
was  part  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  and  participated 
in  all  of  its  more  memorable  engagements. 


MEMORIALS.  551 

McAllister's  Battery  was  the  first  Union  battery  to 
enter  Fort  Henry,  and  its  Captain  was  placed  in  com- 
mand of  that  fort.  At  Fort  Donelson  this  battery  was 
the  first  to  open  its  guns  against  the  Confederate  strong- 
hold, which  action,  having  been  taken  without  orders,  at 
first  caused  consternation;  but  it  woke  the  Union  soldiers 
from  their  slumbers  and  the  general  engagement  soon 
followed.  All  the  guns  of  this  battery  were  during  the 
battle  disabled,  but  were  replaced  by  new  brass  ones  in 
time  to  participate  on  the  Shiloh  field. 

Having  erected  his  battery  at  Shiloh  at  the  edge  of 
a  clearing,  from  which  point  it  fought  and  silenced  Stan- 
ford's Mississippi  Battery,  Captain  McAllister  noticed 
the  columns  of  the  Fourth  (Confederate)  Tennessee  ap- 
proaching. Dividing  his  battery,  with  three  guns  with- 
drawn somewhat  to  the  rear,  he  opened  one  gun  upon 
the  enemy  with  canister,  killing  thirty-one  and  disabling 
one  hundred  and  sixty  men.  This  record  for  severe  re- 
sults was  not  surpassed,  if  equalled,  during  the  war. 

Shortly  after  Shiloh,  the  hardships  and  privations  of 
military  life  proved  too  much,  even  for  the  rugged  and 
hardy  constitution  of  the  farmer-soldier,  and  succumbing 
to  severe  illness  he  was  compelled  to  resign*  his  commis- 
sion. 

Edward  McAllister  was  married  in  1860,  just  prior  to 
the  opening  of  the  war,  to  Miss  Fanny  M.  Beebe,  a  native 
also  of  Salem,  New  York.  Five  children  were  born  to 
them,  of  whom  four  are  living,  all,  save  one  son,  being 
married.  His  widow  also  survives  him.  The  late  Wil- 
liam K.  McAllister,  of  Chicago,  most  eminent  in  the  legal 
profession,  at  one  time  Judge  of  the  old  Recorder's  Court, 
and  from  1870  to  1872  on  the  Supreme  Bench  of  Illinois, 
was  a  brother  of  the  deceased. 

Captain  Edward  McAllister  was  an  honored  example 


552  MEMORIALS. 

of  Illinois's  best  citizenship,  honorable  and  upright,  a 
loyal  neighbor,  a  true  husband,  a  tender  father  and  a 
faithful  friend.  He  was  a  member  of  Plainfield  Lodge, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Joliet  Chapter 
Royal  Arch  Masons,  the  Loyal  Legion,  Bartleson  Post 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  of  the  Society  of  the 
Army  of  the  Tennessee. 

UZIAH  MACK, 
JAMES  G.    ELWOOD, 
MATTHEW  W.   BORLAND, 

Committee. 


ARTHUR  ARNOLD  SMITH. 

Colonel  Eighty-third  Illinois  Infantry  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Manitou,    Colorado, 

September  21,   iqoo. 

ARTHUR  ARNOLD  SMITH  was  the  son  of  Erastus 
f\  and  Martha  (Hulick)  Smith,  was  born  in  Batavia, 
^*  Clermont  County,  Ohio,  on  May  29,  1829,  and  died 
at  Manitou,  Colorado,  September  21,  1900.  The  family 
came  to  Illinois  in  the  Fall  of  1840  and  settled  in  Knox 
County.  Arthur  attended  school  and  performed  farm 
work.  He  made  the  best  of  his  early  advantages.  In 
1848  he  entered  the  Preparatory  Department  of  Knox 
College  and  graduated  from  the  College  with  high  honors 
in  1853. 

He  at  once  entered  upon  the  study  of  law,  under  the 
instruction  of  Abraham  Becker,  an   attorney  of  Otsego- 

553 


554  MEMORIALS. 

County,  New  York,  and  a  year  later  he  entered  the  office 
of  Honorable  Julius  Manning  at  Peoria,  where  his  legal 
studies  were  completed.  He  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  1855  and  opened  his  first  office  in  Galesburg,  Illinois, 
where  he  continued  to  practice  until  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Civil  War. 

With  General  A.  C.  Harding  of  Monmouth,  Illinois, 
he  organized  the  Eighty-third  Regiment  Illinois  Volun- 
teers; General  Harding -being  elected  Colonel  and  Judge 
Smith  Lieutenant  Colonel.  The  regiment  was  mustered 
in  at  Monmouth,  August  21,  1862,  and  was  immediately 
ordered  to  Forts  Henry  and  Donelson.  On  February  3, 
1863,  the  Confederate  Generals  Forrest,  Wheeler  and 
Wharton  made  an  attack  on  the  Eighty-third  Illinois 
Volunteers,  a  company  of  the  Fifth  Iowa  Cavalry  and  a 
section  of  the  guns  of  Flood's  Battery  C,  Second  Illinois 
Artillery.  Colonel  Harding  commanded  the  post  and 
Colonel  Smith  the  regiment.  The  Confederates  sur- 
rounded Fort  Donelson  and  demanded  its  surrender. 
The  garrison  stubbornly  refused  and  the  battle  raged  all 
day,  and  at  nightfall  the  enemy  was  forced  to  retreat. 
Colonel  Smith  received  high  commendation  for  his  part 
in  this  successful  engagement.  He  was  finally  assigned 
to  the  command  of  the  District  of  Tennessee  with  head- 
quarters at  Clarksville,  a  position  he  held  until  the  close 
of  the  war,  when,  in  1865,  he  was  mustered  out  with  the 
brevet  rank  of  Brigadier  General. 

With  these  well-earned  honors,  General  Smith  re- 
turned to  his  home  in  Galesburg,  but  soon  thereafter 
left  for  Clarksville,  Tennessee,  on  a  business  venture 
with  W.  A.  Peffer,  afterwards  United  States  Senator  from 
Kansas.  He  left  Clarksville  in  1866  owing  to  the  ani- 
mosity towards  Northerners  and  resumed  the  practice  of 
law  at  Galesburg.  In  1867  Governor  Oglesby  appointed 


MEMORIALS.  555 

him  Circuit  Judge  to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  and  in  June 
of  the  same  year  he  was  elected  to  this  position,  and  for 
five  consecutive  terms  he  received  the  almost  unanimous 
suffrage  of  the  people  for  that  office,  and  for  twenty-nine 
years  held  court  in  most  of  the  counties  of  the  old  Mili- 
tary Tract.  Two  years  before  the  expiration  of  his  last 
term  he  resigned  because  of  ill  health. 

His  record  on  the  bench  was  of  the  highest  distinction. 
He  excelled  as  a  chancery  lawyer,  where  his  decisions 
were  least  hampered  by  technical  rules.  While  of  a 
marked  social  and  friendly  disposition,  he  had  the  power 
in  a  most  extraordinary  degree  absolutely  to  divorce 
himself  on  the  bench  from  all  personal  influences  and  to 
look  solely  to  the  matter  of  doing  exact  and  impartial 
justice.  Both  the  attorneys  and  the  people  had  the 
utmost  confidence  in  his  ability  and  integrity.  He  was 
a  thorough  and  comprehensive  student  of  the  law,  and 
when  he  retired  it  was  with  the  esteem  of  all  citizens 
without  regard  to  party. 

As  a  citizen  General  Smith  was  a  man  of  broad  views. 
His  life  was  beyond  reproach;  in  his  personal  demeanor 
towards  his  fellow-rnen  he  was  kind  and  forbearing.  He 
was  an  attendant  on  the  Congregational  church.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Republican,  serving  in  1861  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Illinois  Legislature.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Commandery  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  Military  Order  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States,  of  Post  45  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  and  the  Union  Veteran  Union, 
and  a  Trustee  of  Knox  College.  To  all  the  varied  duties 
of  his  life,  General  Smith  brought  ability,  integrity  and 
patriotism.  C.  E.  LANSTRUM, 

NELS  NELSON, 
PHILIP  SIDNEY  POST, 

Committee. 


JOSEPH   HOOKER  WOOD. 

First  Lieutenant  Sixth  Cavalry  and  Brevet   Captain,  United  States 

Army,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Second  Nezv  York  Mounted  Rifles, 

United  States  Volunteers     Died  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 

September  2[,  igoo. 

eJDNEL  WOOD  was  born  June  3,  1838,  in  Water- 
town,  New  York.  His  army  record  commences 
with  his  enlistment,  February  20,  1863,  as  private  in 
Second  Regiment,  United  States  Cavalry,  for  the  term 
of  three  years.  On  the  25th  of  February,  1863,  he  was 
appointed  Second  Lieutenant,  Fifth  United  States  Cav- 
alry, at  Washington,  D.  C. ,  and  was  brevetted  First  Lieu- 
tenant for  gallant  services  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg. 
He  was  severely  wounded  at  Gettysburg,  was  captured, 
paroled  and  cared  for  at  the  house  of  Captain  Swoop 
near  Gettysburg.  Was  brevetted  Captain,  United 

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MEMORIALS.  557 

States  Army,  July  28,  1864,  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
services. 

While  still  maintaining  rank  in  the  United  States 
Army  he  was  commissioned  as  Major  of  the  Fifteenth 
New  York  Cavalry  to  date  from  September  16,  1863,  and 
served  in  the  First,  Second  and  Third  Divisions,  Cavalry 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  took  part  in  the  follow- 
ing battles  and  campaigns:-  Kelly's  Ford,  Virginia;  part 
of  Stoneman's  Raid,  Chancellorsville,  Brandy  Station, 
Aldie,  Middlesburg,  Uppersville,  Gettysburg,  Bad  Lands, 
Takahokuta  Mountains  and  the  closing  battles  of  the  war 
in  Virginia.  Was  commissioned  Colonel  Second  New 
York  Mounted  Rifles,  March  13,  1865,  but  not  mustered 
on  account  of  reduced  size  of  regiment.  Was  commis- 
sioned Lieutenant  Colonel  Second  New  York  Mounted 
Rifles  to  date  from  March  13,  1865,  and  commanded  the 
regiment  until  it  was  mustered  out  at  Fort  Porter,  Buffalo, 
New  York,  August  10,  1865.  He  resigned  from  the  regu- 
lar army  May  7,  1867,  honorably  discharged. 

Thus  for  seventeen  years  our  Companion  has  been 
with  us,  going  in  and  out  among  us,  closely  and  lovingly 
observed,  drawing  us  near  to  him  by  his  modesty,  his 
earnestness,  his  fraternity,  and  his  steadfast  discharge  of 
the  varied  duties  of  civil  life. 

During  all  of  that  time  fraternity  was  with  him  a  liv- 
ing and  ruling  sentiment,  and  no  man  made  appeal  to 
him  in  vain  in  that  sacred  name  if  his  circumstances  and 
situation  allowed  him  to  answer  the  call. 

He  was  elected  an  Original  Companion  of  the  First 
Class  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States,  through  the  Commandery  of  the  State  of 
Illinois,  April  4,  1883,  and  was  one  of  its  most  valued 
members. 


55$  MEMORIALS. 

He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  "Western  Society 
of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac"  and  one  of  its  most  active 
members,  being  President  of  the  Society  during  the 
year  1894. 

He  was  a  member  and  Director  of  the  Memorial  Hall 
Association  of  this  city;  very  constant  in  his  attend- 
ance, and  zealous  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  that  Asso- 
ciation. 

For  many  years  he  had  been  a  member  of  George  H. 
Thomas  Post  No.  5,  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
and  it  was  as  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public that  his  great  labors  of  the  last  year  were  per- 
formed. 

Having  become  identified  with  the  movement  to 
locate  the  National  Encampment  here,  he  gave  himself 
up,  body  and  heart,  to  making  that  Encampment  suc- 
cessful in  every  particular.  He  worked  night  and  day  to 
accomplish  this  purpose. 

On  the  evening  of  the  2ist  of  September  he  sat  at 
his  home  in  pleasant  converse  with  his  wife  and  then  he 
lay  down  to  rest. 

Shortly  before  midnight  the  wife,  alarmed  by  his 
silence,  addressed  herself  to  him  in  affectionate  alarm; 
she  found  that  he  was  not  able  to  respond  to  her  cry; 
death  stood  at  his  bedside  and  called  the  stout-hearted 
soldier  to  arise  and  depart;  just  as  the  new  day  was  en- 
tering the  portals  of  time,  Joseph  Hooker  Wood  joined 
the  majority. 

He  rests  well;  his  widow,  his  daughters,  his  son,  his 
companions,  will  long  remember  him,  and  cherish  ten- 
der recollections  of  his  brave  life  for  his  country,  his 
brave  battles  in  his  days  of  soldiery,  his  no  less  earnest 
struggle  in  the  days  of  peace. 

We  mourn  him;  we  sorrow  for  those  who  remain, 


MEMORIALS.  559 

and  we  pray  God  that  his  mercy,  which  endureth  forever, 

may  reach  him  and  us. 

JOHN  C.  BLACK, 

JOHN  F.  WEARE, 
BRADLEY  DEAN, 

Committee. 


MARCELLUS  EPHRAIM  JONES. 

Captain  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry,   Unittd  States  Volunteers.     Died  at 
Wheaton,  Illinois,  October  9,  7900 

e^PANION  Marcellus  Ephraim  Jones   was  born   at 
Poultney,    Vermont,    June  5,    1830,    and    died    at 
Wheaton,  Illinois,  October  9,   1900.      He  was  the  oldest 
of  nine  children,  three  of  whom   with  his  mother,  now 
over  ninety  years  of  age,  survive  him. 

He  remained  at  home  until  he  was  seventeen  years  of 
age,  when  he  started  for  the  West,  stopping  for  nearly 
two  years  in  Western  New  York  and  then  in  Ohio.  In 
1850  he  reached  Chicago  and  engaged  for  four  years  in 
the  business  of  building.  He  then  went  to  Weyauwega, 
Wisconsin,  and  put  up  a  large  sash,  door  and  blind 
factory.  While  living  there  he  married  Miss  Sara  Reese, 

560 


MEMORIALS.  561 

May  I,  1856,  who  died  June  13,  1858,  leaving  him  one 
child,  a  boy  who  lived  until  he  was  seven  years  of  age. 
After  the  death  of  his  wife,  and  the  burning  of  his  factory 
Companion  Jones  moved  to  DuPage  County,  Illinois,  in 
the  fall  of  1858,  and  settled  at  Danby,  now  Glen  Ellyn, 
and  went  to  work  at  his  trade  as  carpenter  and  builder. 

At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Rebellion  in  1861,  he  laid 
down  his  tools  and  enlisted,  assisting  materially  in  rais- 
ing Company  E,  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry.  The  boys  of 
the  company  wanted  him  to  take  an  office  but  he  replied 
he  knew  nothing  of  military  science  and  tactics,  and 
went  into  the  army  as  a  private.  He  came  from  a  race 
of  fighting  people.  It  was  his  grandmother's  brother, 
General  Stark,  who  at  the  battle  of  Bennington,  during 
the  war  of  the  Revolution,  said  to  his  boys  just  before 
the  battle,  "Boys,  we  conquer  to-day  or  Mollie  Stark  is 
a  widow."  With  this  kind  of  blood  in  his  veins,  it  is 
very  evident  to  us  how  easy  it  was  for  him  to  gradually 
become  promoted — September  5,  1861,  to  First  Duty 
Sergeant;  December  5,  1862,  to  Second  Lieutenant; 
July  4,  1864,  to  First  Lieutenant;  October  10,  1864,  to 
Captain.  He  was  in  every  movement  of  his  regiment, 
except  for  seven  months  when  at  General  Sumner's 
headquarters.  History  accords  to  him  the  honor  of  firing 
the  first  shot  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  On  that 
memorable  morning,  seeing  the  enemy  approaching,  he 
took  the  carbine  from  one  of  his  Sergeants  and  fired  the 
shot  that  opened  the  battle. 

He  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  in  Chicago,  July 
17,  1865,  and  returned  to  Wheaton. 

September  i,  1864,  while  at  home  on  a  furlough,  he 
married  Miss  Naomi  E.  Meacham,  and  for  the  last  thirty- 
six  years  she  has  been  at  his  side,  sharing  his  joys  and 
sorrows.  From  the  close  of  the  war  until  1872,  they 


562  MEMORIALS. 

resided  in  Wheaton;  that  year  they  went  to  Colorado, 
where  they  remained  four  years,  again  returning  to 
Wheaton,  where  they  have  resided  continually  since. 
He  has  filled  several  township  and  city  offices.  In  1882 
he  was  elected  Sheriff  of  DuPage  County.  In  1890  was 
appointed  postmaster  of  Wheaton,  which  office  he  held 
until  the  spring  of  1895. 

Our  deceased  Companion  was  a  charter  member  of 
E.  S.  Kelley  Post,  513,  Department  of  Illinois,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  and  for  a  number  of  years  its  Com- 
mander. Also  a  member  of  Wheaton  Lodge,  No.  269, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  its  Master  for 
several  years.  He  was  a  member  of  Euclid  Chapter, 
No.  13,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Gebal  Council,  No.  81, 
R.  and  S.  M.  He  also  belonged  to  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  the  Odd  Fellows.  He  joined  this  Com- 
mandery  February  10,  1898,  and  was  a  regular  attend- 
ant at  all  its  meetings..  He  was  an  active  member  of 
the  Universalist  Church. 

As  a  soldier  and  citizen,  it  can  well  be  said  of  him 
that  in  army,  official,  and  private  life,  his  conduct  was 
always  above  reproach.  He  was  true  to  every  duty, 
faithful  to  every  trust.  What  more  can  be  said  of  any 
one  ? 

Deeply  sympathizing  with  his  widow  and  friends,  we 
with  them  deplore  his  loss,  and  shall  ever  hold  his 
memory  in  respect  and  esteem. 

FLORUS  D.   MEACHAM, 
HENRY  A.  PEARSONS, 
WILLIAM  P.  WRIGHT, 

Committee. 


CHARLES  REUBEN  HALE. 

Chaplain    United  States  Navy.     Died  at  Cairo,   Illinois. 
December  25,   1900. 

*TTfT  Cairo,  Illinois,  on  the  last  Christmas  day  of  the 
f\  past  century,  the  Right  Reverend  Charles  Reuben 
^*"  Hale,  D.D.,  LL. D.,  passed  the  line  that  divides 
this  life  from  the  future.  This  became  his  natal  day  in 
another  sphere!  He  was  familiarly  known  as  the  Bishop 
of  Cairo,  which  title  was  official  for  some  purposes,  while 
his  more  proper  title  was  Bishop  Coadjutor  of  Springfield. 
Our  distinguished  late  Companion  was  born  at  Lewis- 
town,  Mifflin  County,  Pennsylvania,  March  14,  1837. 
His  father  was  a  prominent  Philadelphia  lawyer,  who 
was  Quartermaster  General  during  our  Civil  War.  Bishop 
Hale  graduated  with  high  honors  at  the  University  of 

563 


564  MEMORIALS. 

Pennsylvania  in  1858.  While  a  student  at  this  University 
he  published  a  treatise  on  the  Rosetta  Stone  Inscription, 
which  won  the  commendation  of  that  great  scholar  Baron 
Humboldt,  who  wrote  to  him  as  follows:  "The  scien- 
tific analysis  of  the  celebrated  inscription  of  'Rosetta,' 
has  appeared  to  me  specially  worthy  of  praise,  since  it 
offers  the  first  attempt  at  independent  investigation 
offered  by  the  literature  of  the  New  Continent."  In  1861 
he  was  ordained  as  Deacon,  and  in  the  year  following 
as  a  Priest.  During  his  early  ministry  he  officiated  as 
assistant  in  two  churches  in  the  vicinity  of  Philadelphia. 

He  was  appointed  a  Chaplain  in  the  United  States 
Navy  on  March  10,  1863,  and  served  in  that  capacity 
until  resignation  March  26,  1871.  During  this  time  he 
was  stationed  at  the  Naval  Academy  at  Newport,  Rhode 
Island,  on  the  United  States  Frigate  Colorado,  and  also 
at  the  League  Island  Navy  Yard,  Philadelphia. 

His  abilities  as  a  scholar  have  been  demonstrated 
throughout  his  entire  life,  but  he  was  particularly  distin- 
guished in  that  branch  of  the  Christian  church  to  which 
he  was  attached.  In  1870  he  became  rector  of  St. 
John's  church,  Auburn,  New  York.  In  1873  he  took  a 
leading  part  in  founding  a  mission  among  the  Italians  in 
New  York  City.  In  1874  he  became  one  of  the  clergy 
of  the  St.  Paul  Church,  Baltimore.  In  1886  he  was 
appointed  the  Dean  of  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  on  May 
17,  1892,  he  was  elected  Bishop  Coadjutor  of  Springfield. 
His  special  charge  was  the  southern  half  of  the  Diocese 
of  Springfield,  with  Cairo  as  the  principal  city.  On  this 
duty  his  battle  of  life  ended. 

As  the  author  of  several  publications  he  established 
an  international  reputation  for  research  and  scholarship, 
and  was  particularly  interested  in  efforts  for  the  unifica- 
tion of  the  Christian  churches  of  the  world.  In  1892  he 


MEMORIALS.  565, 

was  specially  active  in  the  relief  of  the  starving  peasants 
of  Russia,  for  which  service  he  received  a  personal  letter 
of  thanks  from  Countess  Tolstoi.  He  acquired  a  famil- 
iarity with  the  modern  Greek  language  and  also  the  Rus- 
sian language;  in  fact  was  a  linguist  of  considerable  note. 
He  spent  some  time  in  the  far  East,  becoming  familiar 
with  their  religious  life,  associating  on  intimate  terms 
with  many  of  their  most  distinguished  religious  leaders. 
He  was  elected  an  Original  Companion  of  the  First 
Class  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States,  through  the  Commandery  of  the  State  of 
Iowa,  November  10,  1891,  and  transferred  to  this  Com- 
mandery, November  15,  1893. 

Our  departed  Companion  was  personally  well  known 
to  but  comparatively  few  of  the  members  of  this  Com- 
mandery, owing  to  the  fact  that  Chicago  being  our 
chosen  headquarters,  he  was  located  at  the  extreme 
southern  end  of  the  State;  hence  he  seldom  joined  us  at 
our  stated  reunions.  To  some  of  us,  however,  he  is 
remembered  with  special  pleasure  on  account  of  his 
genial  companionship. 

He  leaves  no  family,  as  his  wife  died  several  years 
ago.  We  extend  our  sympathy  to  his  many  friends,  and 
particularly  to  his  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Mulien  and  Miss 
Hale  of  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  to  his  brother, 
Mr.  W.  W.  Hale,  of  Alden,  Iowa. 

JOHN  A.   GRIER, 
CHARLES  WALDO  ADAMS, 
E.   W.   BROOKS, 

Committee* 


HUNTINGTON  WOLCOTT  JACKSON. 

First  Lieutenant  Fourth  New  Jersey  Infantry  and  Brevet  Lieutenant 

Colonel,   United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Nezuark, 

New  Jersey,  January  j,  iqoi. 

TliT  THE  threshold  of  the  new  century,  the  Illinois 
f\  Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion  is  called  upon 
^•*  to  mourn  the  loss  of  one  of  its  oldest  and  most 
cherished  members.  On  the  3d  of  January,  1901,  Brevet 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Huntington  W.  Jackson  passed  away 
at  his  old  home  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  surrounded  by 
sorrowing  friends  and  kindred. 

He  was  born  in  that  city  on  the  28th  day  of  January, 
1841,  and  had  not  quite  reached  the  age  of  sixty  years  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  but  those  years  were  full  of  honor 
and  usefulness. 

=66 


MEMORIALS.  567 

Colonel  Jackson  was  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  and 
belonged  to  one  of  the  oldest  families  of  New  Jersey.  His 
father,  John  P.  Jackson,  was  for  many  years  a  leading 
lawyer  and  prominent  citizen  of  that  State,  and  was  at 
one  time  the  partner  of  Justice  Bradley  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court.  On  his  mother's  side  he  was 
related  to  the  Wolcott  and  Huntington  families  of  New 
England,  after  whom  he  was  named.  The  late  Governor 
Roger  Wolcott,  of  Massachusetts,  was  his  cousin. 

Colonel  Jackson  prepared  for  college  at  Phillip's 
Academy  in  Andover,  Massachusetts,  and  entered  Prince- 
ton College,  now  Princeton  University,  in  1859,  but  be- 
fore his  college  career  was  completed,  the  storm  of  Civil 
War  had  broken  upon  the  country,  and  he  left  college 
never  to  return.  The  closing  incident  of  his  college  life 
is  deserving  of  special  .mention. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  when  the  great 
wave  of  loyalty  and  patriotism  swept  over  the  entire 
country  with  resistless  force,  Jackson,  with  other  students, 
requested  permission  to  raise  the  American  Flag  over  the 
college  buildings.  The  policy  of  "reconciliation  "  was, 
at  this  time,  in  the  ascendant,  and  the  request  was  re- 
fused by  the  college  authorities.  The  same  evening 
Colonel  Jackson  was  one  of  a  party  which  climbed  up 
the  high  tower  of  Nassau  Hall  and  raised  over  it  the  flag 
of  his  country.  The  authorities  demanded  that  the  flag 
should  be  taken  down  by  those  who  raised  it,  which  was 
promptly  refused.  For  this  act  the  entire  party  was 
suspended  and  sent  home.  After  the  facts  were  fully 
stated,  Colonel  Jackson's  father  assured  him  that  he  was 
proud  of  his  conduct  in  the  matter,  and  regarded  his 
suspension,  under  such  circumstances,  as  the  highest 
honor  the  college  could  possibly  bestow  upon  him.  Sub- 
sequently, however,  the  college  itself  made  atonement 


568  MEMORIALS. 

when,  in  1863,  it  conferred  upon  Colonel  Jackson    the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  and  gave  him  his  diploma. 

Colonel  Jackson  was  unable,  for  family  reasons,  to 
enter  the  army  immediately,  but  in  the  summer  of  1862, 
he  accompanied  his  sister,  Mrs.  Parker,  of  Boston,  on  a 
steamer  sent  by  the  United  States  Sanitary  Commission 
to  Harrison's  Landing,  to  bring  back  to  Washington  the 
sick  and  wounded  of  McClellan's  Army.  On  the  6th  day 
of  September,  1862,  his  wishes  were  finally  gratified  and 
he  entered  the  service  as  Second  Lieutenant  of  the 
Fourth  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected until  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  of  service. 

Colonel  Jackson  took  part  with  his  command  in  the 
Maryland  Campaign  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and 
was  present  at  the  fierce  and  destructive  battle  of  Antie- 
tam  on  the  i6th  and  i/th  of  September,  1862,  where  he 
received  special  mention  for  gallantry  and  good  conduct. 
Shortly  afterwards  he  was  promoted  to  be  First  Lieuten- 
ant, and  was  assigned  to  duty  as  Aide  de  Camp  to  Gen- 
eral John  Newton,  commanding  the  Third  Division,  Sixth 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Potomac,  with  whom  he  remained 
until  the  end  of  the  War.  He  took  part  in  the  Second 
Battle  of  Fredericksburg,  where  he  rendered  most  gal- 
lant and  distinguished  service.  It  will  be  remembered 
that,  in  the  ill-fated  Campaign  of  Chancellorsville,  in 
1863,  the  Sixth  Army  Corps,  under  Major  General  John 
Sedgwick,  was  ordered  to  cross  the  Rappahannock  River 
at  Fredericksburg,  and  carry  the  works  on  Marye 
Heights,  where  Burnside  had  been  defeated  only  a  few 
month's  before  with  such  terrible  loss.  How  bravely 
and  successfully  this  duty  was  performed  makes  one  of 
the  brightest  pages  of  the  history  of  the  Civil  War.  Few 
however  are  aware  of  the  part  which  Colonel  Jackson 
took  in  this  fiercely  contested  battle.  In  a  letter  pub- 


MEMORIALS.  569 

lished  several  years  after  the  war,  General  John  Newton, 
speaking  of  this  action,  says: 

"One  of  the  many  heroic  acts  that  came  under  my 
observation  during  the  Civil  War,  was  in  the  assault 
upon  the  famous  stone  wall  at  the  battle  of  Fredericks- 
burg,  where  I  was  in  command  of  a  division  that  led  the 
assault.  Three  bodies  of  troops  moved  at  the  same  time, 
one  of  them  out  of  the  streets  of  the  town,  toward  the 
point  of  attack.  The  one  to  which  I  make  special  refer- 
ence, for  every  man  was  a  hero  who  marched  in  these 
columns,  was  obliged  to  cross  a  bridge  spanning  the 
canal.  It  was  a  very  narrow  bridge  and  there  was  no 
chance  for  delaying.  In  fact  the  men  in  the  advance 
columns  were  fairly  mowed  down  under  the  terrific  fire 
from  the  Confederate  artillery  and  infantry.  Lieutenant 
Huntington  W.  Jackson  of  my  staff  asked  and  received 
permission  to  lead  this  column,  the  Colonel  having  been 
wounded.  This  man  and  the  gallant  fellows  he  led 
fought  their  way  with  dogged  courage  over  the  narrow 
bridge  to  the  open  space  beyond,  and,  strange  to  say, 
Lieutenant  Jackson  was  not  wounded,  though  men  fell 
by  the  dozens  on  all  sides  of  him,  the  carnage  being 
frightful.  He  was  afterwards  wounded,  however,  at  the 
battle  of  Kenesaw  Mountain  in  Georgia.  He  is  now  a 
lawyer  in  Chicago.  For  his  gallantry  on  this  occasion 
he  was  warmly  complimented  by  General  Sedgwick,  for 
his  services  were  purely  voluntary  and  actuated  by  a 
spirit  of  intrepid  bravery.  One  of  the  other  attacking 
columns  got  through  the  line,  but  the  third  failed,  the 
fire  being  so  hot  that  the  men  in  that  column  fairly 
melted  away.  I  consider  that  every  man,  especially 
those  who  led  the  column  over  the  bridge,  performed  an 
individual  act  of  heroism  that  deserves  a  greater  recog- 
nition than  the  mere  mention  of  their  bravery.  They 


57°  MEMORIALS. 

could  not  deploy,  and  it  does  not  need  a  soldier  to  tell 
what  it  means  for  men  to  march  only  four  abreast  into 
the  teeth  of  a  raking,  sweeping  artillery  and  infantry 
fire.  Yet,  as  the  men  were  shot  down,  others  equally  as 
brave  hurried  over  the  little  bridge  and  filled  their  places. 
They  were  great  heroes,  every  one  of  them,  and  I  am 
glad  to  be  able  thus  to  honor  them." 

The  bravery  of  Colonel  Jackson  was  highly  com- 
mended by  his  superior  officers,  and  was  the  subject  of 
general  remark  by  all  who  witnessed  it.  Major  General 
John  Sedgwick,  in  his  official  report  of  this  action,  speaks 
of  Colonel  Jackson  in  the  warmest  terms  of  commenda- 
tion. He  says: 

"The  column  had  broken  and  the  men  were  falling 
back,  but  Lieutenant  Jackson,  having  obtained  permis- 
sion, and  exposing  himself  to  a  fire  that  killed  and 
wounded  one  hundred  and  sixty  out  of  the  four  hundred 
in  the  regiment,  rallied  the  column  and  passed  with  it 
into  the  enemy's  works." 

General  Newton  also  recommended  that  a  brevet 
should  be  conferred  on  him  for  his  gallant  and  distin- 
guished service  in  this  action. 

One  who  took  part  in  this  battle  recently  gave  to  one 
of  this  Committee  a  graphic  description  of  the  assault 
upon  the  almost  impregnable  works  of  the  enemy;  the 
men  charged  in  column,  over  the  bridge  across  the  canal, 
and  up  into  the  works  of  the  enemy,  with  Jackson  at 
their  head,  where  they  captured  a  battery  of  the  famous 
Washington  Artillery,  the  only  one  that  was  taken  in 
battle  during  the  whole  Civil  War. 

The  action  of  Napoleon  in  leading  the  Grenadiers 
across  the  bridge  at  Lodi  has  been  the  theme  of  song 
and  story  for  a  hundred  years,  but  his  bravery  was  sur- 
passed by  that  of  Jackson  and  those  with  him,  in  the 
charge  at  Marye  Heights  on  this  occasion. 


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Two  days  later,  when  Sedgwick  crossed  back  to  the 
north  side  of  the  Rappahannock,  closely  pressed  by  the 
victorious  army  of  Lee,  flushed  with  success  over  Hooker 
at  Chancellorsville,  Jackson  passed  the  entire  night  in 
the  saddle,  bringing  in  the  pickets  just  as  daylight  was 
breaking,  and  was  the  last  man  of  the  Sixth  Corps  to 
cross  the  river.  But  his  modesty  was  equal  to  his 
bravery,  and  he  could  seldom  be  induced  to  speak  of  his 
personal  experiences.  The  facts  we  have  related  have 
been  derived  from  the  official  records  at  the  War  De- 
partment. 

Colonel  Jackson  served  with  General  Newton  at  Get- 
tysburg, and  we  have  heard  him  describe  the  long  night 
march,  and  the  arrival  on  the  field  in  the  gray  of  the 
morning  on  the  2nd  of  July,  1863,  where  General  New- 
ton assumed  command  of  the  First  Corps,  made  vacant 
b}'  the  death  of  the  lamented  General  John  F.  Reynolds. 
He  served  in  this  action  with  distinguished  gallantry,  and 
was  again  highly  commended  by  his  superior  officers. 

In  March,  1864,  General  John  Newton  was  assigned 
to  the  command  of  a  Division  of  the  Army  of  the  Cum- 
berland, and  Colonel  Jackson  served  on  his  staff  and  was 
present  at  every  battle  during  the  entire  Atlanta  Cam- 
paign. 

At  the  assault  upon  the  rebel  works  at  Kenesaw 
Mountain,  Georgia,  June  27,  1864,  Colonel  Jackson,  while 
at  the  front  and  encouraging  the  men,  was  wounded,  and 
brought  off  the  field.  While  at  home  recovering  from 
his  wound,  his  regiment  having  been  mustered  out,  he 
obtained  permission  to  rejoin  the  Staff  of  General  New- 
ton, and  was  present  at  the  closing  operations  of  General 
Sherman,  which  led  to  the  capture  of  Atlanta,  taking 
part  in  the  fiercely  contested  battle  of  Jonesboro. 

Upon  the  recommendation  of  General  John  Newton 


572          .  MEMORIALS. 

and  General  O.  O.  Howard,  Colonel  Jackson  received  the 
brevet  rank  of  Captain  for  special  gallantry  at  Rocky 
Faced  Ridge  in  Georgia;  was  made  brevet  Major  for  gal- 
lant and  meritorious  service  at  the  battle  of  Kenesaw 
Mountain,  where  he  wa.s  badly  wounded;  and  received 
the  rank  of  brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel  for  gallant  and 
meritorious  service  at  the  battle  of  Jonesboro. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Colonel  Jackson  resumed  his 
studies  which  had  been  so  rudely  interrupted.  After 
spending  one  year  at  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  some 
months  in  foreign  travel,  he  came  to  Chicago  to  practice 
his  profession,  which  he  pursued  for  more  than  thirty 
years  with  distinguished  success.  He  was  an  able  lawyer 
and  gained  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  who  knew 
him.  He  filled  many  positions  of  trust  and  confidence; 
he  was  President  of  the  Chicago  Bar  Association,  Re- 
ceiver of  the  Third  National  Bank,  and  one  of  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Crerar  Library,  of  which  he  was  President  at 
the  time  of  his  death.  No  man  at  the  bar  of  this  city 
ever  stood  higher  in  character,  honesty  and  integrity. 

Colonel  Jackson  never  sought,  nor  would  he  accept, 
political  place.  When  a  number  of  years  ago  it  became 
manifest  that  there  was  pressing  need  of  reform  in  the 
conduct  of  public  business  in  the  township  of  South  Chi- 
cago, he,  with  a.  number  of  others,  then  comparatively 
young  men,  undertook  the  work  of  reform.  They  were 
met  with  threats  of  physical  violence  as  well  as  by  other 
forms  of  opposition  familiar  to  corrupt  politicians  of  the 
baser  sort.  But  the  man  who,  in  early  manhood,  led 
the  charge  across  that  battle  swept  bridge  at  Fredericks- 
burg;  who,  well  at  the  front,  rode  his  horse  over  Con- 
federate works  at  Marye's  Hill;  who,  in  that  gallant 
though  costly  assault  upon  Kenesaw  Mountain,  was 
stopped  only  by  a  wound;  who  won  promotion  for  gal- 


MEMORIALS.  573 

lantry  on  many  hard  fought  fields,  was  not  readily  in- 
timidated in  civil  conflict.  The  movement  was  a  suc- 
cess, the  people  rallied  to  their  support,  and  the  corrupt 
gang  who  fattened  on  public  plunder  was  overthrown. 
But  except  at  this  time,  and  for  such  purpose,  Colonel 
Jackson  invariably  refused  to  allow  his  name  to  be  used 
for  public  office. 

He  was  one  of  the  most  modest  of  men.  His  own 
conduct  or  achievements  were  never  subjects  of  his  con- 
versation. He  was  always  and  everywhere  a  gentleman, 
self-respecting,  scrupulously  just  and  nobly  generous, 
pure  in  heart  and  life,  commanding  confidence  and  re- 
spect by  force  of  character  and  integrity.  He  had  the 
courage  of  his  convictions  and  never  hesitated  to  stand 
for  the  things  which  he  believed  to  be  right  nor  to  con- 
demn what  he  thought  was  wrong  without  thought  of 
consequences.  Yet  to  his  friends  he  exhibited  the  heart 
of  a  lover  and  constancy  equal  to  his  courage.  During 
the  years  he  lived  and  walked  among  us  he  won  the  love 
of  those  whose  privilege  it  was  to  know  him  well.  There 
is  a  genuine  sorrow  over  his  absence  from  the  old  familiar 
places  where  we  were  accustomed  to  meet  him,  and  not 
a  few  of  us  feel  that  life  is  not  so  full,  not  so  strong,  as 
as  it  was  when  he  was  in  our  midst,  bearing  his  part  and 

cheering  others. 

E.   A.   OTIS, 

WM.   ELIOT  FURNESS, 
HENRY  V.   FREEMAN, 

Committee. 


HASWELL  CORDIS    CLARKE. 

Captain  and  Brevet  Lieutenant  Colonel.   United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Kankakee,  Illinois,  January  id,  igoi. 

T(iN  ORDERLY  from  Divine  Headquarters  has  once 
f\  more  visited  our  Commandery,  delivered  his  pa- 
^"-  pers,  and  Lieutenant  Colonel  Haswell  Cordis 
Clarke  has  been  detailed  for  duty  in  the  great  bivouac  on 
the  other  side  of  the  broad  river  of  eternal  life  to  which 
we  too  may  so  soon  be  summoned. 

Haswell  Cordis  Clarke  was  born  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  28,  1842,  and  died  in  the  city  of 
Kankakee,  Illinois,  January  16,  1901. 

His  father,  John  Jones  Clarke,  who  was  also  a  native 
of  the  old  Bay  State,  was  a  lawyer  by  profession  and  a 
distinguished  member  of  the  Massachusetts  bar.  In 

574 


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early  life  he  attained  considerable  prominence  in  public 
positions,  and  was  the  first  Mayor  of  Roxbury,  which 
now  forms  a  part  of  Boston.  He  served  as  a  member  of 
the  State  Senate,  and  was  a  gentleman  of  considerable 
wealth  and  of  high  social  standing.  His  death  occurred 
November  5,  1887,  at  the  age  of  nearly  eighty-five  years. 
The  mother  of  Colonel  Clarke  was  a  woman  of  high  in- 
tellectual attainments  and  deep  piety,  and  was  charitable 
and  public  spirited.  She  was  moreover  possessed  of 
much  personal  grace  and  beauty  and  many  excellencies 
of  character.  Her  death  occurred  December  26,  1883, 
in  her  home  in  Massachusetts.  Colonel  Clarke's  mother 
and  father  traced  their  lineage  back  through  a  line  of 
men  prominent  in  the  Revolutionary  period  of  this 
country. 

Companion  Clarke  entered  Harvard  College  in  1859 
as  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1863,  but  left  the  same  be- 
fore graduating,  having  accepted  a  commission  Novem- 
ber 9,  1 86 1,  as  Captain  and  Aide  de  Camp,  U.  S.  V., 
and  been  assigned  to  duty  on  the  Staff  of  Major  General 
Benjamin  F.  Butler,  to  whom  he  reported  for  duty  at 
the  above  date  in  the  city  of  Boston. 

With  that  intrepid  sailor,  Admiral  Farragut,  our  Com- 
panion passed  the  fiery  ordeal  of  shot  and  shell  at  Forts 
Jackson  and  St.  Philip,  April  23,  1862,  for  which  he  re- 
ceived the  brevet  rank  of  Major,  "For  gallant  conduct 
in  execution  of  orders  on  the  Mississippi  river  at  the 
bombardment  of  Forts  Jackson  and  St.  Philip."  And  on 
the  ist  of  May,  1862,  he  entered  New  Orleans  with  the 
Union  army  and  remained  there  a  year  while  General 
Butler  was  in  command  of  the  Department  of  the  Gulf. 
He  served  with  Butler  in  all  his  campaigns,  until  the 
close  of  the  war.  Throughout  that  time  he  was  the 
warm  and  trusted  friend  of  his  commander.  He  was 


576  MEMORIALS. 

mustered  out  in  October,  1865,  as  Captain  with  the 
brevet  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  to  which  rank  he  had 
been  promoted  "For  gallantry  and  courage  in  the  attack 
of  the  rebels  on  Battery  Harrison,  in  front  of  Richmond, 
September  30,  1864." 

Immediately  after  the  close  of  the  war  Colonel  Clarke 
removed  to  Kankakee  to  take  charge  of  a  flax  mill  in 
which  his  father  was  interested.  When  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  was  organized  Colonel  Clarke  was  made 
Cashier.  He  served  the  bank  in  this  capacity  until  its 
reorganization  in  1894.  Meantime  his  fellow-citizens 
had  called  upon  him  to  serve  them  as  Alderman,  member 
of  the  Board  of  Education,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Eastern  Illinois  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  President  of 
the  Kankakee  Club  and  of  the  Business  Men's  Associa- 
tion. In  1899  he  was  elected  Mayor. 

The  Kankakee  press  was  unanimous  in  praise  of  our 
Companion,  from  which  we  extract  the  following: 

' '  Colonel  Clarke  died  this  morning  (January  16,  1901) 
at  fifteen  minutes  of  eleven  o'clock,  surrounded  by  his 
immediate  relatives  who  had  been  warned  for  a  number 
of  hours  that  the  end  was  approaching.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  a  lucid  interval  at  two  o'clock  this  morning 
when  he  recognized  his  wife  he  was  unconscious  since 
yesterday  afternoon.  His  dsath,  like  his  illness,  was 
free  from  pain,  and  his  relatives  and  friends  feel  a  large 
measure  of  thankfulness  that  his  decline  was  mercifully 
without  suffering. 

"Probably  the  death  of  no  Kankakeean  will  be  so 
much  regretted  as  that  of  Colonel  Clarke.  He  has  been 
for  so  many  years  identified  with  the  public  and  social 
interests  of  this  community  that  his  removal  will  ap- 
proach very  nearly  to  conferring  a  sense  of  personal  loss 
upon  all  of  the  older  residents  of  the  city.  He  possessed 


MEMORIALS.  577 

a  genial  personality  that  made  him  approachable  at  all 
times  by  all  people.  To  this  he  added  such  sterling 
qualities  of  conscience  and  an  inherent  sense  of  right 
that  he  was  respected  as  much  as  he  was  liked.  He  pos- 
sessed and  cultivated  high  ideals  of  citizenship  and  of 
personal  character,  and  exemplified  in  his  relations  with 
his  fellow  men  some  of  the  finest  attributes  of  manhood. 
His  manner  was  by  nature  always  that  of  the  refined 
gentleman.  His  wide  acquaintance  and  his  association 
with  men  all  over  the  country  gave  him  an  ease  of  man- 
ner and  an  adaptability  to  people  of  all  classes  which 
rendered  him  an  agreeable  and  entertaining  companion, 
and  gave  him  local  distinction  on  many  public  occasions. 
In  his  business,  church  and  social  relations  he  was  de- 
ferred to  as  one  whose  judgment  was  clear  and  safe.  As 
Alderman  and  Mayor  he  was  absolutely  true  to  his  con- 
victions, and  unselfishly  committed  to  what  he  believed 
were  the  public  interests.  Wherever  he  was  tried  Col- 
onel Clarke  proved  beyond  all  suspicion  that  he  was 
honest  to  himself  and  conscious  of  his  responsibility  to 
others." 

Colonel  Clarke  was  elected  an  Original  Companion 
of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United 
States,  through  the  Commandery  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
November  5,  1879.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Masonic  Order,  having  been  a  Past  Grand  High  Priest 
of  Royal  Arch  Masonry  and  Past  Grand  Commander  of 
Knights  Templars  of  Illinois.  He  was  also  an  honorary 
member  of  the  thirty-third  degree  of  the  Northern  Ma- 
sonic Jurisdiction,  United  States  of  America,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  Veteran  Association  of  Illinois.  The 
Rev.  Dr.  Phillips  officiated  at  the  Episcopal  Church 
services,  and  the  Freemasons  at  the  cemetery.  There 
was  a  large  attendance  of  his  comrades  of  the  Grand 


5/8  MEMORIALS. 

Army  of  the  Republic  and  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  the 
Loyal  Legion  being  represented  by  General  John  C. 
Smith  and  Captain  James  G.  Elwood. 

In  politics  Colonel  Clarke  was  a  staunch  Republican, 
and  his  religious  affiliations  were  Episcopalian. 

In  May,  1869,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Harriet  Cobb, 
a  lady  who  proved  a  most  suitable  companion.  The 
Clarke  home  was  one  of  refinement  and  gracious  hospi- 
tality. JOHN  C.  SMITH, 

JAMES.   G.  ELWOOD, 
JOHN  C.    NEELY, 

Committee. 


LEONARD    FULTON  ROSS. 

Brigadier  General,    United  States   Volunteers.     Died  at   Galesburg, 
Illinois,   January  ij,   iqoi. 

TEONARD  FULTON  ROSS  was  born  at  Lewistown, 
in  Fulton  County,  Illinois,  July  18,  1823.  Colonel 
^"""^  Seventeenth  Regiment  Illinois  Infantry,  and  Brig- 
adier General,  United  States  Volunteers.  Elected 
November  n,  1897.  First  Class.  Insignia  No.  11,977. 
He  served  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Fourth  Regiment 
Illinois  Infantry  during  the  Mexican  War.  Enlisted  in 
the  Army  of  the  Union  in  April,  1861.  Was  made 
Colonel  Seventeenth  Regiment  Illinois  Infantry.  Brig- 
adier General,  April  25,  1862.  Resigned,  July  22,  1863. 
Such  is  the  record  of  our  Companion  who  passed  to 
the  other  shore  January  17,  1901. 

579 


580  MEMORIALS. 

In  life  he  was  not  alone  honored  as  a  Companion  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  and  a  Comrade  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  but  was  held  in  high  esteem  by  prominent 
military  men,  and  was  respected  by  the  masses  whose 
friendship  at  all  times  was  at  their  command. 

As  a  citizen  and  soldier  he  was  the  peer  of  any  of 
Illinois'  sons;  having  led  a  blameless  life,  he  gave  his 
best  years  in  his  country's  defense,  and  at  the  ripe  age 
•of  seventy-eight  years  he  was  called  to  the  spirit  land. 

He  is  just  a  day's  march  in  advance  of  the  remnant 
of  that  great  army  whose  steps  shook  the  land  from  1861 
to  1865,  while  they  tramped  and  fought  the  battles  that 
perpetuated  our  country  undivided. 

He  was  buried  with  military  honors  by  his  Comrades, 
and  as  the  rattle  of  musketry  passed  over  his  narrow 
resting  place  where  he  had  been  consigned,  it  brought 
forth  the  thought  to  his  Comrades — "Who  comes  next?" 

As  members  of  that  Grand  Army  we  believe  his  spirit 
departed  to  the  final  camp,  over  the  river,  where  angels 
guard  the  battlements  that  crown  the  city  of  our  God — 
a  city  where  we  all  hope  to  assemble  to  answer  the  roll 
•call  at  the  Grand  Reveille,  and  as  we  stand  in  line  for 
that  final  inspection,  voices  like  bugle  notes  will  pro- 
claim everlasting  peace. 

Day  by  day  passes,  the  roll  is  called,  and  another  is 
announced  as  failing  to  answer.  The  number  who  passed 
through  the  ordeal  of  shot  and  shell  grows  less,  and  ere 
many  decades  all  will  have  passed  across  the  river. 
Our  lines  are  likened  unto  the  sands  of  the  desert;  we 
are  drifting  nearer  the  brink  of  life's  river,  and  when  that 
inevitable  time  comes  and  the  great  Commander  calls 
us  to  yonder  shore,  let  us  be  prepared  to  enjoy  that  ever- 
lasting peace  and  happiness,  the  reward  of  the  faithful, 
the  loyal  and  the  brave. 


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Amid  all  the  scenes  in  the  eventful  life  of  General 
Ross  as  a  citizen  and  a  soldier,  his  magnificent  presence 
on  all  occasions  commanded  attention  and  respect,  and 
in  his  daily  life,  as  he  mingled  among  those  who  loved 
him,  he  was  characterized  as  a  giant  of  right,  standing 
in  order,  prepared  to  pass  the  portals  of  that  "spiritual 
building,  that  house  not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the 
heavens. " 

WILLIAM   A.   LORIMER, 
JOHN  MCARTHUR. 
CHARLES  F.   MATTESON, 

Committee. 


EDWARD  CONNELL  ABDILL. 

First  Lieutenant  One  Hundred  and  Twentieth  Indiana  Infantry, 

United  States  Volunteers.     Died  at  Danville,  Illinois, 

February  20,  1901. 

PDWARD  CONNELL  ABDILL  was  bom  at  Pen-y- 

ville,  Indiana,  May  14,  1840,  and  died  at  his  home 
^s*"*  in  Danville,  Illinois,  February  19,   1901. 

He  entered  the  volunteer  service  of  the  United  States 
as  a  private  in  Company  B,  Eleventh  Indiana  Infantry, 
under  Colonel  Lew  Wallace,  August  15,  1861.  He  was 
engaged  with  his  regiment  at  Forts  Henry  and  Donelson 
and  elsewhere  in  their  campaigning.  In  February,  1863, 
he  was  detailed  as  a  special  messenger  in  charge  of  mails 
and  dispatches  at  General  Grant's  headquarters,  which 
responsible  service  he  rendered  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 

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MEMORIALS.  583 

commanding  General,  until  December  of  that  year, 
when  he  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant 
of  the  Twentieth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry.  After  the 
fall  of  Vicksburg  he  was  designated  by  General  Grant  to 
bear  to  the  North  the  official  dispatches  announcing  the 
great  result.  He  was  soon  afterward  assigned  to  duty 
as  Assistant  Adjutant  General  of  the  First  Brigade,  First 
Division,  Twenty-third  Corps.  He  participated  in  the 
battles  of  the  Vicksburg  and  Atlanta  Campaigns,  and  was 
discharged  on  account  of  disability,  contracted  in  line  of 
duty  prior  to  and  in  front  of  Atlanta  in  August,  1864. 

He  married  Miss  Anna  Peters,  a  daughter  of  Judge 
Peters,  a  prominent  citizen  and  early  settler  of  Danville, 
Vermilion  County,  Illinois.  Their  marriage,  contracted 
in  1864,  on  his  leaving  the  service,  was  one  of  true  and 
enduring  affection.  From  slender  beginnings,  the  two 
working  and  loving  together,  prospered  and  builded  them 
a  beautiful  home  where  for  many  years  they  dwelt  in 
amity,  rearing  a  family  of  four  children — Charles  P. 
Abdill,  Mrs.  E.  Y.  English,  Katherine  and  Harry — who, 
with  their  mother,  survive  our  Companion  and  keep  his 
memory  green  and  sweet  as  that  of  a  cherishing  husband, 
a  sacrificing  father,  and  a  patriot. 

Edward  C.  Abdill  looked  on  an  old  soldier  as  a  com- 
rade and  a  friend.  For  fifteen  years  prior  to  his  death 
he  was,  with  his  comrade,  W.  R.  Jewell,  constant  in 
efforts  to  secure  the  erection  in  Danville  of  a  monument 
to  the  dead  of  Vermilion  County,  of  the  great  war,  and 
in  1900  he  was  successful;  the  funds,  long  accumulating, 
were  all  secured.  The  monument  of  granite,  surmounted 
by  a  bronze  heroic  figure,  was  purchased  and  erected, 
and  all  but  the  final  work  of  raising  the  figure  to  its  place 
was  completed.  The  dedication  ceremonies  set  for 
October  were  delayed  by  accident  to  the  shaft  itself  at 


584  MEMORIALS. 

the  quarry,  and  postponed  until  the  3Oth  of  May,  1901. 
To  this  delay  the  brave  and  loyal  worker  submitted  with 
what  patience  he  could,  and  looked  forward  with  eager- 
ness to  that  time  when  his  work  of  honor  and  love  for 
the  dead  should  at  last  stand  unveiled.  Alas,  only  with 
spiritual  eyes  will  he  behold  it,  but  it  will  be  more  his 
monument  than  that  of  any  for  whom  he  toiled  to  erect  it. 
True  heart,  brave  man,  dear  comrade  and  Companion, 
God  give  you  rest  and  peace,  and  may  you  from  eternal 
heights  be  given  to  see  the  land  you  loved  prosperous 
and  good. 

JACOB  W.   WILKIN, 
JOHN  C.   BLACK, 
FRANCIS  A.   RIDDLE, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  HUNT. 

Captain  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry,   United  States  Volunteers.     Died 
at  Riverside,  Illinois,  March  77,  igor. 

3UNDAY  morning,  March  17,  1901,  there  diedjat 
his  Riverside  home  Captain  George  Hunt,  a  be- 
loved and  respected  member  of  our  Commandery. 
Captain  Hunt  was  born  in  Knox-  County,  Ohio,  in  1841. 
When  scarcely  fifteen  years  of  age  he  came  to  Edgar 
County,  Illinois,  an  orphan,  living  with  an  uncle,  teaching 
school  during  the  summer  months  and  attending  college 
at  Terre  Haute  during  the  winter.  From  this  college 
he  graduated  in  the  spring  of  1861.  In  July,  1861  he 
enlisted  in  Company  E,  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry,  re- 
enlisting  as  veteran  in  1864.  He  was  an  exemplary 
soldier,  rilling  every  place  assigned  to  him  with  that 
patience,  perseverance  and  loyalty  to  detail  that  charac- 

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terized  his  whole  life.  His  promotion  to  the  Captaincy 
of  his  company  was  a  reward  for  merit,  merit  won  for  all 
those  qualities  becoming  in  a  soldier  and  a  man;  of  un- 
questioned bravery,  gentlemanly  in  character  and  deport- 
ment, he  won  the  esteem  and  love  of  his  comrades  in 
arms,  as  in  after  life  those  intimate  friends  paid  homage 
to  his  kind  heart,  his  unostentatious  manner  and  his 
loyal  friendship.  His  death  was  an  unexpected  shock 
and  called  forth  the  sincere  regrets  of  all  who  knew  him, 
that  his  life  might  not  have  been  prolonged  to  his  family 
and  his  country. 

In  civil  life  he  was  a  lawyer  of  marked  ability,  inter- 
esting himself  in  public  affairs.  His  sterling  qualities 
received  recognition  in  his  election  as  State  Senator,  and 
afterwards  for  eight  years  as  the  Attorney  General  of 
Illinois.  It  was  in  this  capacity  that  in  1887  and  1890  he 
conducted  the  prosecution  of  the  anarchists  in  Chicago 
in  the  Supreme  Courts  of  the  State  and  of  the  United 
States  against  such  noted  lawyers  as  Benjamin  F.  Butler, 
John  Randolph  Tucker  and  Roger  A.  Pryor. 

Captain  Hunt  had  been  a  resident  of  Chicago  and  its 
suburbs  since  1893.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Hamilton 
Club,  of  the  Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  and  a 
Knight  Templar;  his  associates  in  these  societies  mourn 
with  us  his  death,  not  only  as  a  loss  to  us  but  to  our  City 
and  our  State.  We  desire  to  bear  testimony  to  his  virtues 
and  his  unsullied  life.  Such  a  life  is  full  of  inspiration 
and  is  an  exemplar  after  which  we  may  model  ourselves. 
To  his  bereaved  wife  and  daughter  we  offer  our  most 
sincere  sympathy.  With  them  we  share  the  recollection 
of  a  sunny  face,  kind  heart  and  of  a  worthy  Companion. 

JOHN  McARTHUR, 
GEORGE  MASON, 
RICHARD  S.  TUTHILL, 

Committee. 


JAMES   ADAMS   BALDWIN. 

Captain  First  Massachusetts  Cavalry,   United  States  Volunteers. 
Died  at  Chicago,  March  20,  1901. 

etfPANION  James  Adams  Baldwin.  Born  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  August  31,  1843.  Died  in  Chicago, 
Illinois,  March  20,  1901.  Thus  reads  to  the  world  the 
epitome  of  a  man's  existence.  The  Nation's  records 
read:  "Enrolled  October  14,  1861,  as  Bugler,  Company 
A,  First  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Cavalry; 
promoted  to  Corporal,  February  i,  1863,  and  to  Quarter- 
master Sergeant,  November  15,  1863;  commissioned 
Second  Lieutenant,  Company  D,  from  March  i,  1864; 
First  Lieutenant  from  November  13,  1864,  and  Captain 
from  June  19,  1865;  mustered  out  June  29,  1865,  by 
reason  of  ending  of  war." 

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588  MEMORIALS. 

Wherever  the  First  Brigade,  Second  Division,  Cav- 
alry Corps,  Army  of  the  Potomac,  marched  and  fought 
through  the  years  of  steadfast  loyalty  and  cheerful  sacri- 
fice from  Manassas  until  the  last  flashing  sabre  was 
sheathed  in  the  glinting  of  the  war's  setting  on  Appomat- 
tox  field,  there  rode  our  gallant  Companion.  Modest 
and  unostentatious,  he  was  of  that  brave  host,  who,  by 
their  fidelity  in  the  ranks,  courage  on  the  reconnaisance, 
obedience  to  the  voice  of  command,  patience  at  the 
picket  line  and  vigilance  at  the  outpost,  made  possible 
the  greater  America  of  to-day. 

To  us  no  longer  belongs  the  pomp  and  circumstance 
of  the  military  show,  but  rather  the  sadder  service  of 
singing  the  requiems  of  those  who  in  the  springtime  of 
their  life  wore  the  blue  with  us.  Sweet  shall  be  the  re- 
newed memories  of  the  days  when  we  marched  and  bat- 
tled that  the  Nation  might  survive.  Sweeter  must  be  the 
sacred  memories  of  his  home  life  to  those  who  stand  to- 
day in  the  shadow  and  weep  and  pray  in  sorrowful  yearn- 
ing for  the  sound  of  the  loving  voice  that  is  still  forever. 
To  them  we  tender  our  tender  sympathies  and  with  them 
join  our  hopes  for  a  blessed  reunion  beyond  the  shores 
of  the  Ultimate  River. 

"  May  the  flowers  ba  fair  above  him, 
May  the  bright  buds  bend  and  love  him, 
May  his  sleep  be  deep  and  dreamless 
'Till  the  last  great  bugle  call." 

F.  R.  WERNER, 
M.  J.  SHERIDAN, 
JAMES  M.  BALL, 

Committee. 


ARTHUR   EDWARDS. 

Chaplain  First  Michigan  Cavalry,  United  States  Volunteers.      Died 
at   Chicago,   Illinois,   March  20,   iqoi. 


EDWARDS  was  born  in  Norwalk,  Ohio, 
of  Welsh  and  Scotch  ancestry,  November  23,  1834. 
His  grandfather,  John  Edwards,  was  born  in  this 
country  and  faithfully  served  it  in  the  Revolutionary  War 
and  the  War  with  England  in  1812.  Being  bereft  of  his 
father  when  about  seven  years  old,  Arthur  was  adopted 
by  an  uncle  and  made  his  home  with  him  in  Trenton, 
Michigan.  This  uncle  was  a  lake  captain,  whose  home 
was  within  a  few  hundred  feet  of  the  water.  Here  Arthur 
Edwards  became  thoroughly  familiar  with  all  phases  of 
sea  life,  which  possessed  for  him  a  life-long  fascination. 
He  spent  one  year  in  the  Seminary  at  Albion,  Michi- 

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gan,  and  then  went  to  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University, 
from  which  institution  he  graduated  in  1858. 

He  entered  the  Methodist  ministry  in  the  Detroit 
Conference,  immediately  after  his  graduation,  and  was 
appointed  Pastor  of  the  church  at  Marine  City,  Michigan, 
where  he  remained  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War. 

Arthur  Edwards  was  a  born  soldier,  and  once  secured 
an  appointment  at  West  Point,  but  finally  decided  to  ob- 
tain a  collegiate  education  instead  of  a  military  training. 

In  1 86 1  he  was  among  the  first  to  respond  to  his 
country's  call,  and  was  appointed  Chaplain  of  the  First 
Michigan  Infantry,  participating  with  it  in  some  of  the 
most  memorable  battles  of  the  War.  He  was  connected 
with  the  Secret  Service  at  Washington,  Baltimore  and 
Richmond  for  six  months,  endeavoring  to  ferret  out  a 
Confederate  plot.  He  retained  his  position  as  Chaplain 
until  after  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  when  he  resigned  to 
consider  the  acceptance  of  the  Colonelcy  of  a  Cavalry 
Regiment,  tendered  him  by  the  Governor  of  the  State. 
He,  however,  felt  compelled  to  decline  the  appointment 
and  returned  to  the  ministry. 

While  Chaplain,  he  won  the  affection  of  the  men  and 
the  complete  respect  of  the  officers,  not  only  of  his  own, 
but  of  other  regiments,  and  it  is  claimed  that  he  was  the 
most  popular  Chaplain  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  At 
one  time,  several  of  the  officers,  who  had  become  alarmed 
at  the  failing  for  strong  drink  of  the  commanding  Gen- 
eral— the  gallant  Joe  Hooker — requested  Chaplain  Ed- 
wards to  have  a  personal  interview  with  the  General  on 
the  subject.  He  performed  his  delicate  and  difficult  task 
with  such  tact  and  courage  that  General  Hooker  warmly 
thanked  him  for  what  he  had  done,  and  declared  that 
neither  the  Chaplain  nor  the  Army  should  have  future 
cause  for  anxiety  over  the  condition  of  their  commander. 


MEMORIALS.  5QI 

Dr.  Edwards  was  the  oldest  editor,  in  point  of  service, 
in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  occupied  a  high 
place  in  the  front  rank  of  religious  editors  throughout 
the  world.  He  had  a  grasp  of  public  questions  which  his 
wide  experiences  in  life  as  soldier  and  journalist  had 
given  him,  and  which  few  men  have  possessed.  His 
editorials  on  the  various  phases  of  the  war  between  China 
and  Japan,  and  the  war  between  Spain  and  the  United 
States,  were  those  of  a  naval  expert,  and  attracted  wide 
attention  outside  of  church  readers.  His  style  was  dis- 
tinguished for  its  epigrams  and  forceful  expressions. 

His  influence  upon  the  legislation  of  the  great  church 
to  which  he  belonged,  was  very  marked.  It  is  safe  to 
say  that  no  man  in  the  ranks  wielded  greater  influence. 
He  was  always  on  the  right  side  of  the  important  ques- 
tions which  came  before  him  for  consideration,  and  took 
the  lead  in  bringing  them  to  a  successful  consideration. 

Dr.  Edwards  was  the  very  personification  of  sympa- 
thy and  kindness.  Although  firm  as  a  rock  in  his  con- 
victions of  truth  and  righteousness,  he  was  ever  ready 
to  help  the  fallen  and  give  them  further  opportunities 
for  retrievement  and  reformation.  He  had  a  keen 
sense  of  humor  and  possessed  rare  power  as  a  conversa- 
tionalist, which  always  made  him  a  center  of  magnetic 
attraction. 

In  1889  he  was  appointed  by  President  Harrison  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  to  West  Point,  and  be- 
ing elected  its  Secretary  wrote  the  report  of  the  Board 
to  the  Secretary  of  War. 

For  many  years  he  was  Chaplain  of  this  Commandery 
of  the  Loyal  Legion,  to  which  he  was  so  devotedly  at- 
tached, and  faithfully  served  it  in  that  capacity. 

After  making  a  gallant  fight  for  life  with  an  insidious 
and  painful  disease,  and  remaining  at  his  post  of  duty  to 


592  MEMORIALS. 

almost  the  last  conscious  moment,  he  entered  into  rest 
on  Wednesday  evening,  March  20,   1901. 

Dr.  Edwards  was  married  January  24,  1868,  to  Miss 
Caroline  Whitehead,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Henry  White- 
head,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Chicago;  to  them  were  born 
three  children,  Dr.  A.  R.  Edwards,  a  well  known  physi- 
cian of  our  city,  Miss  Grace  Edwards,  and  Miss  Alice 
Edwards.  Mrs.  Edwards  and  the  children  survive  him  to 
mourn  the  loss  of  one  of  our  bravest  and  most  honored 
Companions  and  one  of  the  noblest  men  that  ever  lived. 

SAMUEL  FALLOWS, 
WILLIAM  ELIOT  FURNESS, 

A.  J.   HARDING, 

Committee. 


GEORGE  HENRY    PALMER. 

Major  {Retired),    United  States  Army.     Died  at  Harrison,  Illinois, 
April  7,   iqoi. 

r\EATH  loves  a  shining  mark!  The  grim  Destroyer 
^  1  found  one  when  he  struck  down  the  subject  of 
~^  this  sketch.  Born  of  patriotic  stock — his  great- 
grandfather having  served  as  a  Colonel  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution  and  assisted  in  the  capture  of  Burgoyne;  his 
grandfather  a  Major  General  for  years  in  the  New  York 
State  Militia;  his  father  a  cavalry  officer  in  the  Mexican 
War — it  did  not  surprise  those  who  knew  them  best,  that 
within  twelve  days  after  the  firing  on  Sumter,  the  father 
had  raised  a  company  of  cavalry  (of  which  he  was  unani- 
mously chosen  Captain),  afterward  known  as  Company 
G,  First  Illinois  Cavalry  Volunteers,  and  had  started  for 

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the  front,  the  son  accompanying  him  as  Bugler  of  the 
company.  The  "front,"  for  that  command,  was  North- 
ern and  Northeastern  Missouri,  so  long  debatable  ground 
between  the  Union  and  Confederate  forces;  a  land  where, 
during  the  early  days  of  the  Rebellion,  nearly  every  settle- 
ment furnished  recruits  to  the  Confederate  cause,  and 
every  thicket  held  an  ambushed  foe  to  the  Union. 

It  need  not  be  stated  that  this  service  was  most  try- 
ing and  arduous.  But  throughout  the  long  summer,  the 
regiment  strove  earnestly  to  "hold,  occupy,  and  possess  " 
those  portions  of  Missouri  which  Jackson  and  Price  were 
claiming  for  the  Confederacy,  until  the  i8th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1 86 1,  found  the  command  of  Colonel  Mulligan — of 
which  the  First  Cavalry  formed  a  part — at  Lexington, 
confronted  by  an  overwhelming  force  of  Confederates 
under  General  Price.  Notwithstanding  the  odds  against 
him,  or  the  desperate  chances  confronting  him,  it  was 
not  in  Mulligan's  "makeup"  to  surrender  without  a 
fight.  For  three  days  the  battle  raged  furiously,  while 
the  great  Northwest  was  thrilled  with  the  gallantry  of 
her  sons,  who  were  there  receiving  their  first  "baptism 
of  fire."  As  the  fight  grew  hot,  and  cavalry  could  not  be 
used  as  such,  the  soldiers  of  the  First  Illinois  fought  in 
the  trenches,  and  conspicuous  among  them  was  the  young 
Bugler.  When  the  Union  hospital  was  occupied  by  the 
rebels,  and  volunteers  were  called  for  to  recapture  it, 
young  Palmer  was  first  to  volunteer  and  led  the  charge, 
which  was  successful.  For  this  brave  act  he  was  awarded 
a  Medal  of  Honor. 

Though  the  little  force  was  compelled  to  surrender  to 
hunger  and  thirst,  and  the  overwhelming  numbers  of  the 
enemy,  the  moral  victory  of  the  battle  of  Lexington — 
like  its  namesake  of  the  Revolution — was  with  the  North. 
Owing  to  difficulties  that  arose,  connected  with  the  ex- 


MEMORIALS.  595 

change  of  prisoners,  the  First  Illinois  Cavalry  lost  its 
organization  as  a  regiment,  but  most  of  the  brave  men 
that  formed  it  originally,  sought  service  in  other  organ- 
izations, in  which  many  of  them  rose  to  distinction 
before  the  war  ended.  Palmer  was  honorably  discharged 
as  Bugler  October  9,  1861.  On  August  21,  1862,  he 
again  entered  the  service  as  First  Lieutenant,  Company 
A,  Eighty-third  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  He  was 
promoted  Captain,  February  4,  1863,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  honorably  mustered  out  with  his  command 
on  June  26,  1865,  because  of  the  termination  of  the 
War.  On  January  27,  1867,  was  appointed  Second 
Lieutenant  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Infantry,  United 
States  Army;  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant,  August  2nd 
of  the  same  year.  He  was  assigned  to  the  Sixteenth 
Infantry,  United  States  Army,  December  15,  1870;  was 
promoted  to  Captain  in  same  regiment  March  20,  1885; 
promoted  to  Major,  Fourth  Infantry,  January  11,  1899, 
in  which  rank  he  served  until  retired  February  27,  1899. 

While  in  the  regular  army  he  saw  much  service  on 
the  plains  during  Indian  troubles,  and  was  on  duty  at 
many  different  stations  in  various  States. 

Of  his  five  children,  who,  with  his  widow,  survive 
him,  two  sons,  Captain  G.  G.  Palmer,  Thirtieth  Infantry, 
and  Lieutenant  Bruce  Palmer,  Tenth  Cavalry,  are  still  in 
service.  His  two  daughters  are  Mrs.  C.  H.  Noble  wife  of 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Noble,  Sixteenth  Infantry,  and  Mrs. 
E.  C.  Carey,  wife  of  Captain  Carey,  of  the  same  regiment. 
His  remaining  son,  Mr.  Ned  Palmer,  is  in  civil  life. 

Major  Palmer  was  elected  a  Companion  of  the  Illinois 
Commandery,  Loyal  Legion,  First  Class,  January  10, 
1895.  As  a  member  of  the  Commandery  he  impressed 
all  who  became  acquainted  with  him,  as  he  had  all  with 
whom  he  had  served  in  camp  and  field,  as  a  man  whose 


596  MEMORIALS. 

watchword  was  "Duty."  Modest,  unassuming,  even 
somewhat  reserved,  he  commanded  the  respect  of  all, 
and  those  who  were  admitted  to  the  inner  circle  of  his 
personal  friendship  were  bound  to  him  as  with  "hooks 
of  steel."  In  family  and  social  life  he  was  the  prince  of 
every  circle  in  which  he  moved.  On  the  /th  of  April, 
1901,  having  met  fearlessly  and  faithfully  all  the  calls  of 
duty,  he  met  the  summons  of  the  "  Ultimate  Conqueror" 
without  fear  or  remorse — 

"As  one 

Who  wraps  the  drapery  of  his  couch  about  him 
And  lies  down  to  pleasant  dreams." 

ROBERT  W.  MCCLAUGHRY, 
J.  J.  ABERCROMBIE, 
R.   PAGE  WAINWRIGHT, 

Committee. 


ALEXANDER   CALDWELL    McCLURG. 

Captain  (Lieutenant  Colonel  by  Assignment),  and  Assistant  Adjutant 
General  and  Brevet  Brigadier  General,  United  States  Volun- 
teers.    Died  at  Jacksonville,  Florida,  April  15,  1901. 

GENERAL  Alexander  Caldwell  McClurg,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia  on  the  9th  day  of  September  1832.  His 
family,  the  American  branch  of  which  dates  from 
the  advent  in  1798  of  his  grandfather  and  father,  though 
settled  for  several  generations  in  Ireland,  is  of  Scotch 
origin,  and,  if  the  tartan  indicate  consanguinity,  akin  to 
the  Clan  McLeod.  His  mother,  who  bore  the  fine  old 
Cornish  name  of  Trevor,  was  a  native  of  England.  He 
was  eight  years  of  age  when  the  McClurgs  removed  to 
Pittsburg,  where  he  received  his  early  education,  and 
was  prepared  for  Miami  University,  which  he  entered  at 

597 


598  MEMORIALS. 

seventeen  and  quitted  before  he  was  one-and-twenty 
with  the  Bachelor's  degree — that  of  Master  was  con- 
ferred three  years  later.  From  the  University  he  passed 
to  the  office  of  the  Hon.  Walter  H.  Lowrie,  then  Chief 
Justice  of  Pennsylvania;  only,  however,  to  break  off  his 
studies  at  the  end  of  a  twelve-month,  discouraged  by 
failing  health  and  the  conviction  that  the  law  was  not 
his  vocation.  In  1859  he  accepted  a  situation  in  the 
book-selling  house  of  S.  C.  Griggs  &  Co.,  and  identified 
himself  with  the  business  life  of  Chicago,  in  which,  the 
stormy  interval  of  the  Civil  War  once  crossed,  he  was  to 
take  so  conspicuous  a  part. 

The  evolution  of  the  political  conflict  between  the 
North  and  the  South,  which  finally  resulted  in  an  appeal 
to  arms,  was  watched  by  McClurg  with  the  intensest  in- 
terest, and  when  he  resolved  to  take  the  field  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  he  was  moved  not  more  by  military  ardor 
than  by  reasoned  patriotism.  He  enlisted  in  the  Eighty- 
eighth  Illinois  Infantry  on  the  2ist  of  August,  1862,  and 
the  same  day  was  raised  to  the  Captaincy  of  Company  H 
by  the  unanimous  vote  of  his  comrades.  The  regiment, 
hastily  organized  at  Camp  Douglas,  was  at  once  hurried 
to  the  front  and  within  a  month  of  its  departure  faced 
the  enemy  at  Perryville.  This,  and  Stone's  River  were 
the  only  actions  in  which  he  participated  as  a  company 
commander.  His  conduct  in  both,  and  the  ability  he 
subsequently  manifested  as  Judge  Advocate  of  a  general 
court  martial,  drew  the  attention  of  General  Alexander 
McCook,  who  in  May,  1863,  made  room  for  him  on  his 
Staff.  When  after  Chickamauga  his  chief  was  relieved 
of  his  command,  McClurg  might  have  joined  the  Staff  of 
either  Thomas  or  Sheridan,  both  of  whom  invited  his 
services. 

The  post  of  Acting  Adjutant  General  of  Baird's  Divis- 


MEMORIALS.  599 

ion  seemed,  however,  the  most  eligible  that  offered,  and 
in  that  capacity  he  made  the  Campaign  of  Chattanooga, 
had  his  horse  shot  under  him  at  Missionary  Ridge,  and 
won  his  promotion  to  the  rank  of  Captain  and  Assistant 
Adjutant  General.  His  commission  was  dated  March  4, 
1864,  and  on  the  I2th  of  April  he  took  over  the  duties  of 
Adjutant  General  of  the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps;  but  to 
the  proper  grade  annexed  thereto  he  was  not  advanced 
until  October  3d,  some  time  after  the  supercession  of 
Palmer  by  Davis,  when,  for  "especially  gallant  conduct 
in  the  battle  of  Jonesboro, "  he  was  made  a  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  and  named  Chief  of  Staff.  Henceforth  his  mil- 
itary biography  is  interwoven  with  the  story  of  that 
mighty  column,  whose  earth-shaking  tread  from  Atlanta 
to  the  Sea,  dwindles  now  to  ghostly  foot-falls. 

The  war  over,  the  brevets  of  Colonel  "for  efficient 
and  meritorious  services"  and  Brigadier  General  "for 
gallant  and  meritorious  services  during  the  war"  were 
conferred  on  him,  friends  presented  him  a  sword  of  honor 
thickly  graven  with  the  names  of  battles,  and,  crowning 
distinction,  Sherman,  Thomas,  Mitchell  and  Baird  ad- 
vised him  to  make  arms  his  profession.  His  slight  yet 
martial  figure  was  seen  for  the  last  time  in  official  place 
when  Sherman's  victorious  veterans  defiled  before  the 
President  at  the  Grand  Review  at  Washington.  On  the 
1 9th  day  of  September,  1865,  he  was  mustered  out  of 
service  with  twenty-five  battles  and  campaigns  to  his 
credit.  They  make  a  formidable  list:  Perryville,  Stone's 
River,  Liberty  Gap,  Tullahoma,  Chickamauga,  Chatta- 
nooga, Missionary  Ridge,  Ringgold  Gap,  Tunnel  Hill, 
Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Resaca,  Adairsville,  New  Hope 
Church,  Pine  Mountain,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Chatta- 
hoochee  River,  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Atlanta,  Utoy  Creek, 
Jonesboro,  The  March  to  the  Sea,  Fayetteville,  Averys- 


6OO  MEMORIALS. 

boro,  Savannah,  Bentonville.  Even  a  naked  catalogue 
may  have  its  eloquence.  This  one  speaks  of  toilsome 
marches,  of  nights  without  shelter  and  days  without 
food,  of  perilous  hours  of  battle,  resolutely  borne  by  a 
man  of  physical  constitution  so  frail  that  only  his  uncon- 
querable will  and  inflexible  conscience  could  have  sup- 
ported hardships  and  dangers  under  which  stronger  men 
sank  and  died  without  a  wound. 

On  his  return  to  Chicago,  McClurg  borrowed  ten 
thousand  dollars  on  the  ample  security  of  his  honored 
name,  and  bought  an  interest  in  the  old  book  house. 
The  venture  was  disastrous,  fire  swept  away  the  concern, 
there  was  no  insurance,  and  he  found  himself  again  pen- 
niless and  in  debt  besides.  He  continued  nevertheless 
to  share  the  fortunes  of  the  firm  until  it  was  practically 
dissolved  by  the  historic  conflagration  of  1871.  From 
its  ashes  rose  the  new  house  of  Jansen,  McClurg  &  Co., 
which  passed  scathless  through  the  financial  panic  of 
1873,  and  four  years  later  was  flourishing  enough  to  jus- 
tify McClurg  in  taking  a  wife.  In  April,  1877,  he  mar- 
ried Eleanor,  daughter  of  Judge  Nelson  Knox  Wheeler 
of  New  York,  and  a  niece  of  the  Hon.  William  B.  Ogden. 
Of  two  sons  born  of  the  union,  the  elder,  Ogden  Trevor, 
a  recent  graduate  of  Yale,  survives.  The  death  of  his 
second  son  and  namesake,  a  lifelong  grief  to  McClurg, 
was  the  only  cloud  that  ever  darkened  the  sunshine  of 
his  home. 

He  had  now  given  hostages  to  fortune,  but  apparently 
without  that  loss  of  initiative,  which,  according  to  Bacon, 
should  have  ensued.  At  any  rate  the  culminating  period 
in  the  history  of  his  business  began  in  1886  with  his  ac- 
cession to  the  senior  partnership.  All  the  departments 
felt  his  quickening  touch,  but  perhaps  it  lingered  longest 
on  that  of  rare  books.  It  was  an  exotic  in  the  regular 


MEMORIALS.  6OI 

trade  of  his  introduction,  and,  whether  directly  profitable 
or  not,  had  made  his  establishment  a  haunt  of  the  let- 
tered, facilitated  contacts  favorable  to  the  publishing 
department,  and  given  him  pleasure.  His  discriminating 
love  of  books  was  the  secret  of  its  success.  Sensitive  as 
he  was  to  any  artistic  manifestation  in  the  various  crafts 
employed  in  the  mechanical  part  of  book-making,  luxuri- 
ous devices  squandered  on  a  worthless  volume  could 
never  blind  his  judgment.  "The  barren  scarcities  of 
typography "  of  which  Lowell  speaks,  and  which  led 
Alexander  Dyce  to  exclaim:  "There  is  nothing  so  com- 
mon as  a  rare  book "  did  not  tempt  him  and  he  really 
cared  only  for  "books  that  are  books"  according  to  the 
elastic  definition  of  Charles  Lamb. 

Unharmed  by  the  financial  troubles  of  1893,  so  fatal 
to  the  book  trade,  the  house  suffered  no  interruption  of 
prosperity  until  1899,  when  the  establishment  was  wholly 
destroyed  by  fire.  It  was  McClurg's  third;  no  longer 
young  and  a  confirmed  invalid,  he  thought  for  a  moment 
of  retirement;  but  consideration  of  the  welfare  of  his  host 
of  employees  quickly  conquered  his  hesitation,  and, 
though  he  had  but  two  years  of  life  in  him,  he  set  about 
and  accomplished  the  work  of  reorganization.  A  corpo- 
ration with  the  old  name  was  formed;  the  capital  was 
fixed  at  six  hundred  thousand  dollars;  he  was  made  Pres- 
ident, and  under  his  generous  direction  the  surplus  stock 
was  distributed  by  sale  or  gift  among  the  employees. 
McClurg's  commercial  career  fitly  closes  with  an  act  of 
courage  and  devotion  that  was  like  a  dying  benediction 
on  the  house,  which  he  had  not  only  founded,  but,  by 
upholding  the  gentle  as  well  as  the  honorable  traditions 
of  the  trade,  had  raised  to  equal  rank  with  those  great 
English  houses,  to  whose  names  the  dignity  of  duration 
has  given  almost  aristocratic  significance. 


6O2  MEMORIALS. 

His  warlike  achievements  and  his  mercantile  success 
have  somewhat  overshadowed  McClurg's  reputation  as  a 
writer,  which,  though  not  wide  was  considerable.  The 
volume  of  his  literary  work  is  necessarily  small,  but  its 
quality  compensates  that  deficiency.  His  published  writ- 
ings comprise  an  appreciative  sketch  of  his  old  chief, 
Jefferson  C.  Davis;  an  article  in  The  Forum  justifying 
his  first  vote  for  Mr.  Cleveland;  an  essay  on  International 
Copyright,  in  which  he  took  the  honest  side;  a  paper  in 
the  Atlantic  Monthly  on  the  battle  of  Bentonville  (The 
Last  Chance  of  the  Confederacy);  and  a  memorial  of  his 
fellow  collegian  and  brother  officer,  Colonel  Minor  Milli- 
ken.  His  inedited  papers  include  the  inaugural  address 
he  pronounced  as  President  of  the  Literary  Club;  a  poem 
recited  at  a  dinner  of  the  Commercial  Club  in  honor  of 
its  Boston  namesake;  a  notice  of  John  Crerar,  read  be- 
fore the  Historical  Society;  a  lecture  delivered  at  a 
reunion  of  this«  Commandery;  •  and  an  autobiographic 
fragment  covering  about  two  years  of  his  military  service. 

Many  of  these  pieces  are  occasional  and  must  suffer 
the  fate  of  that  sort  of  composition.  His  verses,  for 
example,  clever  as  they  are,  neatly  and  ingeniously 
rhymed, -gently  humorous,  and  brightened  here  and  there 
with  a  gay  spark  of  harmless  malice,  contain  veiled  allus- 
ions that  will  puzzle  his  grandchildren.  The  "greater  part 
of  his  prose  is  of  permanent  interest.  Everything  he 
wrote  about  the  Civil  War  is  well  worth  reading.  His 
masterly  account  of  the  battle  of  Bentonville  is  one  of  the 
best  bits  of  military  writing  extant;  and  his  affecting 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  his  friend  Milliken  is  matchless 
for  sincerity  and  the  complete  self-effacement  of  the 
author.  McClurg's  style  is  perspicuous  and  grammatic- 
ally correct.  A  little  leisurely  at  first,  as  the  dread  im- 
ages of  the  past  rise  before  him,  it  gains  in  rapidity  and 


MEMORIALS.  603 

in  certain  passages  (such  as  the  description  of  his  meet- 
ing with  Milliken  on  the  field  of  Perryville,  or  his  picture 
of  that  officer's  dramatic  death-struggle)  is  touched  with 
a  fine  emotion. 

His  turn  for  letters  was  not  the  only  mark  of  McClurg's 
refined  taste.  He  took  an  unfeigned  and  natural  delight 
in  all  forms  of  aesthetic  expression,  and  his  judgment  in 
matters  pertaining  to  the  shaping  group  of  the  fine  arts 
was  surer  than  that  of  many  professed  critics.  His  pre- 
dilections were  literary,  artistic  and  military.  He  kept 
up  his  old  army  associations  through  the  medium  of  the 
Loyal  Legion,  and  formed  new  ones  as  Colonel  of  the 
First  Regiment  of  the  Illinois  National  Guard,  which  he 
commanded  for  many  years,  and  brought  up  to  a  high 
degree  of  discipline  and  efficiency.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Fine  Arts  Club  of  New  York,  and  a  governing 
member  of  the  Chicago  Art  Institute.  He  had  been 
President  of  the  Literary  Club,  of  the  Historical  Society, 
Vice-President  of  the  University  Club,  was  a  member  of 
the  Caxton  Club  of  Chicago,  and  the  Grolier  of  New 
York,  and  a  Trustee  of  the  Newberry  Library,  He  was 
not,  however,  the  slave  of  his  voluntary  pursuits,  and 
found  leisure  for  clubs  so  various  in  purpose  as  the  Chi- 
cago, the  Union,  the  Saddle  and  Cycle,  the  Onwentsia, 
and  the  Commercial,  of  the  latter  of  which  he  had  been 
President.  But  other  distinctions  than  those  won  in 
clubland  were  his.  In  1893  Yale  conferred  on  him, 
honoris  causa,  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  and  the 
same  year  Mr.  Cleveland  appointed  him  on  the  Board  of 
Visitors  to  West  Point,  a  dignity  bestowed  only  on  men, 
without  political  pretensions,  who  by  character  and  in- 
fluence so  tower  above  their  fellows  as  to  demand  Presi- 
dential recognition. 

In  1894  he  had  a  serious  illness  which  was  the  fore- 


604  MEMORIALS. 

runner  of  a  mortal  malady.  He  sought  relief  in  European 
travel  that  so  often  before  had  been  a  solace  to  his  shaken 
nerves.  This  time  it  was  of  no  avail;  his  health  con- 
tinued slowly  and  steadily  to  decline  until  the  end,  which 
came  on  the  i  5th  day  of  April,  1901,  at  St.  Augustine, 
Florida.  The  news  fell  like  a  note  of  infinite  sadness  on 
the  ears  of  his  old  Companions  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  who 
most  will  miss  him,  but  not  for  long — only  till  they  too 
are  missed.  His  death  was  generally  lamented  as  that 
of  few  men  has  been.  Journals  vied  with  each  other  in 
doing  honor  to  his  memory,  and  his  funeral  in  St.  James's 
Church,  where  his  three  hundred  employes  knelt  with  the 
representatives  of  all  that  was  best  in  the  intellectual  and 
social  life  of  Chicago,  was  like  a  victory  over  oblivion. 

McClurg  was  a  trifle  below  the  middle  height,  slen- 
der and  shapely,  with  a  prominent  brow,  straight  nose, 
hair  grey  from  early  manhood,  and  clear  blue  eyes  that 
inspired  instant  confidence.  His  bearing  was  modest 
without  shyness,  and  in  uniform  he  looked  every  inch  a 
soldier.  The  accent  of  his  voice  was  courteous  and  kind, 
and  his  gracious  and  winning  manner  had  just  the  need- 
ful touch  of  defensive  dignity.  Temperate  in  all  things, 
he  was  soiled  with  no  excess.  He  was  not  ruled  by  im- 
pulse, that  intoxication  of  the  sober  which  makes  life  a 
mosaic  of  mistakes.  Prompt  in  an  emergency  in  matters 
admitting  of  it  he  took  time  for  deliberation.  He  made 
no  rash  alliances,  though,  once  his  affection  was  gained, 
the  staunchest  of  friends.  Prominent  in  many  move- 
ments to  better  the  condition  of  the  poor,  to  broaden 
the  field  of  culture,  or  to  mend  the  ways  of  government, 
he  entered  none  of  them  headlong.  He  thought  out 
every  step  of  his  earthly  pilgrimage,  and  among  the  forms 
of  beauty  he  admired  did  not  forget  that  of  order.  In 
politics  he  was  a  conservative,  but  not  of  the  protoplas- 


MEMORIALS.  605 

mic  sort  that,  following  the  French  anecdote  would  have 
maintained  chaos.  In  his  eyes  the  antiquity  of  an  abuse 
was  not  its  consecration,  nor  the  novelty  of  a  reforma- 
tory idea  a  sufficient  reason  for  its  condemnation.  In 
religion  he  adhered  to  the  Anglican  Communion,  but 
was  not  a  zealot.  The  faith  of  his  childhood  served  him 
in  his  prime.  He  was  acquainted  with  the  results  of 
recent  research;  but  apparently  regarded  them  as  another 
form  of  Divine  revelation,  and  was  confident  that  in  the 
end  the  last  word  of  science  would  be  the  first  word 
of  God. 

Intercourse  with  him,  whether  personal  or  epistolary, 
was  full  of  charm.  His  letters,  unaffected,  yet  disfigured 
with  no  slovenliness  of  style  were  cordial  and  sincere, 
his  talk,  destitute  of  the  ornaments  of  boasting  and 
calumny,  with  which  those  ambitious  to  scale  another 
social  height  or  fearful  of  sinking  to  a  lower  level  bestrew 
their  conversation,  was  bright,  sensible,  humorous,  often 
witty,  always  instructive.  He  had  also  the  rare  gift  of 
receptivity.  No  epigram  nor  verbal  felicity  fell  un- 
noticed when  he  was  by.  His  reading  was  discursive, 
and  he  sometimes  lighted  on  neglected  treasures.  A 
favorite  book  of  his,  unknown  to  most  and  read  by  few, 
was  the  Broadstone  of  Honor — a  sort  of  mirror  of  knight- 
hood, reflecting  those  mediaeval  ideals  which  Kenelm 
Henry  Digby  thought  had  still  a  lesson  for  the  modern 
world.  Doubtless  it  served  to  keep  before  him  the 
meaning  of  those  inexorable  words,  honor,  duty,  and  to 
sublimate  the  qualities  which  made-  him  in  the  antique 
and  noble  sense  a  gentleman,  not  only  in  the  virtues 
that  create,  but  also  in  the  minor  graces,  that  adorn  and 
complete  that  character. 

Viewed  from  all  points  McClurg's  life  was  honorable, 
happy,  rich  in  experience.  He  had  known  the  joys  of 


606  MEMORIALS. 

husband  and  father;  tasted  the  sweets  of  distinction, 
military  rank,  university  honors,  social  leadership;  ma- 
terial things  had  prospered  in  his  hands  and  he  had  cared 
for  the  finer  things  of  the  spirit;  he  had  breathed  the 
still  air  of  delightful  studies;  lived  the  swift  minutes  of 
battle,  and  crowded  with  virtuous  actions  the  creeping 

hours  of  peace. 

HENRY  A.   HUNTINGTON, 

EPHRAIM  A.   OTIS, 
WILLIAM  ELIOT  FURNESS, 

Committee. 


ALBERT  BANFIELD  CAPRON. 

Captain  Fourteenth  Illinois  Cavalry,  United  States  Volunteers.    Died 
at  Winnetka,  Illinois,  May  8,  igoi. 

eMPANION  Albert  B.   Capron  died  at  his  home  in 
Winnetka,  a  suburb  of  Chicago,  May  8,  1901,  after 
an  illness  of  about  a  week,  of  pneumonia. 

At  the  April  meeting  of  the  Illinois  Commandery, 
Companion  Capron  read  a  paper  of  marked  interest,  in 
which  he  sketched  his  experiences  in  Stoneman's  cavalry 
raid  below  Atlanta.  The  account  given  of  the  heroic 
charges  and  struggles  of  Stoneman's  command  and  par- 
ticularly of  the  brigade  of  his  father,  General  Horace 
Capron,  a  part  of  which  finally  cut  its  way  through  the 
cordon  of  the  enemy's  forces — both  infantry  and  cavalry 
— by  which  they  were  completely  encircled,  possessed 

607 


608  MEMORIALS. 

the  thrilling  interest  which  only  an  eye-witness  can  give. 
His  own  part,  in  which  he  faithfully  guarded  a  certain 
approach  with  a  small  company,  staying  there  as  ordered, 
until  his  little  troop  was  entirely  surrounded  and  captured, 
was  modestly  and  briefly  set  forth.  He  did  not  dwell,  as 
he  might  have  done,  upon  the  hardships  of  his  captivity. 
Those  of  us  who  heard  that  paper  will  recall  with  pleas- 
ure the  frank,  manly,  handsome  countenance  of  our  Com- 
panion. He  looked  the  picture  of  health  as  he  stood 
erect,  with  good  color,  bright  eye  and  a  face  beaming 
with  the  animation  naturally  awakened  by  the  scenes  he 
was  living  over  again  as  he  described  them  to  an  appre- 
ciative audience.  His  voice  was  clear,  strong  and  reso- 
nant; seldom  has  a  paper  been  read  with  more  general 
acceptance. 

Companion  Capron  was  highly  esteemed  by  all  who 
knew  him  well  and  his  circle  of  friends  was  large.  His 
quiet  temper  and  social  qualities  were  such  as  to  hold  old 
friends  and  make  new  ones.  It  was  said  of  him  by  those 
who  had  lived  by  his  side  for  years  that  he  was  never 
known  to  speak  ill  of  any  person. 

He  had  the  instincts  and  consequently  the  manners 
of  a  gentleman.  His  character,  evidently  based  on 
superior  inherited  qualities,  was  that  of  a  chivalrous, 
high-toned  Christian  who  had  learned  self-control  and 
found  his  happiness  in  doing  for  others.  No  one  could 
be  long  in  his  company  without  being  made  aware  of 
these  noble  personal  traits. 

Albert  Banfield  Capron  was  born  June  12,  1844,  at 
Laurel,  Prince  George  County,  Maryland.  Companion 
Capron  belonged  to  a  military  stock  and  took  kindly  to 
the  profession  of  the  soldier.  Not  only  was  his  father  a 
Brigadier  General,  as  has  been  indicated,  but  two  of  his 
brothers  were  in  the  army;  and  looking  backward  to  the 


MEMORIALS.  609 

Revolution,  his  ancestor,  Dr.  Seth  Capron,  was  an  Aide 
de  Camp  on  General  Washington's  Staff. 

Even  before  hostilities  began,  when  only  a  youth  of 
seventeen,  Albert  B.  Capron  had  enlisted  in  the  Second 
United  States  Cavalry,  in  Texas,  and  served  as  an  Or- 
derly with  Major  (afterwards  Major  General)  George  H. 
Thomas,  coming  North  with  him  near  the  outbreak  of 
the  war,  marching  with  his  small  command  through  the 
Indian  Territory.  Young  Capron  was  with  the  Second 
United  States  Cavalry  from  April  till  August,  1861,  but 
was  not  then  mustered  in,  probably  because  not  of  the 
required  age;  but  soon  after  his  arrival  in  Illinois,  he  was 
enrolled,  August  20,  1861,  in  the  Thirty-third  Illinois 
Infantry  Volunteers.  His  military  record  during  the  War 
of  the  Rebellion  was  brilliant.  His  first  station  was  at 
Benton  Barracks,  Missouri.  His  first  battle  was  under 
Lyon,  when  a  force  of  five  hundred  were  sent  across 
the  river  to  seize  the  guns  just  loaded  on  the  opposite 
side  and  intended  for  the  rebels  at  Camp  Jackson, 
numbering  three  thousand  infantry.  The  contest  was 
sharp,  but  the  guns  were  secured,  and  Lyon's  prompt 
and  masterly  action  is  said  to  have  saved  St.  Louis  to 
the  Union  cause. 

Under  Siegel's  command  Capron  participated  in  the 
severe  battle  of  Wilson's  Creek,  August  8,  9  and  10,  1861. 
The  death  of  the  brave  General  Lyon  at  the  head  of  his 
command  made  a  deep  impression  on  the  young  soldier. 
During  eight  months  he  was  color-bearer  of  his  regiment. 
When  in  1862  his  father,  General  Horace  Capron,  took 
the  field,  his  son  Albert  was  promoted  and  transferred 
to  his  staff,  as  also  was  his  older  brother,  Horace,  who 
came  from  the  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry,  and  his  younger 
brother,  Osmond,  who  was  a  mere  lad.  Captain  Horace 
Capron  was  killed  in  action  in  North  Carolina,  February 


6lO  MEMORIALS. 

2,  1864.  Albert  B.  Capron  rode  beside  his  brother  in 
the  last  charge,  and  took  command  of  the  company  at 
his  death.  He  was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant,  A 
Company,  Fourteenth  Illinois  Cavalry,  March  5,  1864, 
and  Captain,  July  11,  1865. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  battles  in  which  Com- 
panion Albert  B.  Capron  participated:  Battle  of  Pea 
Ridge,  Arkansas;  Island  Number  Ten  captured;  Vicks- 
burg;  Cumberland  Gap,  Tenn. ;  Siege  of  Knoxville;  Bat- 
tle of  Resaca;  of  Newmarket;  Dallas;  Lost  Mountain; 
Kenesaw  Mountain;  Battles  before  Atlanta,  Georgia 
(taken  prisoner);  Battle  of  Franklin,  Tennessee,  and  of 
Nashville. 

One  of  the  most  thrilling  of  his  army  experiences  was 
his  night  ride  of  one  hundred  miles  through  the  enemy's 
line,  bearing  dispatches  from  General  Burnside  in  Knox- 
ville to  General  Wilcox  at  Cumberland  Gap.  It  was  a 
hazardous  undertaking.  Twenty  brave  men  had  already 
failed  in  the  attempt.  When  he  returned,  General  Burn- 
side,  with  manifest  enthusiasm,  said:  "You  have  won 
your  spurs,"  and  presented  him  with  a  pair  of  his  own 
spurs.  Major  Capron  was  also  one  of  the  Cavalry  Brigade 
led  by  his  father,  which  helped  to  capture  General  John 
Morgan  and  his  entire  command,  after  a  ride  of  nineteen 
hundred  miles  in  thirty-one  days.  He  participated  in 
twenty-three  general  battles,  besides  a  great  many  skir- 
mishes and  sharp  cavalry  actions.  Two  horses  were  shot 
under  him  while  in  action.  He  and  his  command  were 
under  fire  for  one  hundred  days  on  the  march  to  and 
Siege  of  Atlanta,  Georgia,  during  which  he  was  taken 
prisoner,  as  stated. 

His  last  service  in  the  war  was  under  General  Sheri- 
dan on  the  Texas  frontier,  where  he  was  in  expectation 
of  proceeding  to  Mexico,  to  help  in  relieving  the  people 


MEMORIALS.  6ll 

of  that  country  of  the  pretended  sovereignty  of  Maxi- 
milian. Captain  Capron  was  three  times  made  a  pris- 
oner, and  received  three  severe  wounds  in  the  service  of 
his  country. 

A  few  years  since  he  was  appointed  Aide  de  Camp  on 
the  Staff  of  General  Lawler,  Commander-in-Chief  of  the 
Grand  Army,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel. 

General  Horace  Capron,  the  father,  was  appointed 
by  President  Grant  Commissioner  of  Agriculture,  and 
afterwards  by  the  Japanese  Government  Commissioner 
and  Counsellor  for  the  development  of  the  agricultural 
and  mineral  resources  of  the  island  of  Yesso. 

Captain  Capron  co-operated  with  his  father  in  this 
important  work  in  which  he  was  occupied  for  a  number 
of  years.  Among  other  duties  he  purchased  blooded 
stock,  cattle,  horses  and  sheep;  also  machinery  and  seed 
grains,  and  shipped  them  from  San  Francisco. 

Before  his  employment  as  purchasing  agent  for  the 
Japanese  Government,  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile 
business  at  Kenosha,  Wisconsin.  He  came  to  Chicago 
in  1872,  and  had  since  resided  at  Winnetka,  on  the 
North  Shore.  For  more  than  twenty  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  carried  on  a  general 
grain  commission  business.  In  business  he  exhibited  the 
same  energetic  and  straightforward  course  which  won 
him  distinction  in  the  army,  and  he  was  held  in  the 
highest  regard  by  his  business  associates. 

Captain  Capron  was  married  at  Kenosha,  Wis- 
consin, October  20,  1869,  to  Miss  Amelia  Doolittle, 
daughter  of  Alfred  W.  and  Ann  Urania  (Hannahs)  Doo- 
little, natives  of  Oneida  County,  New  York,  and  has 
left  a  family  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  all  of  adult 
age,  to  share  with  their  widowed  mother  in  the  bereave- 
ment that  has  so  suddenly  come  upon  them.  His  eldest 


MEMORIALS. 

son,  Horace  Mann  Capron,  is  a  Companion  of  the  Illinois 

Commandery. 

C.   H.   ROWLAND, 
E.   D.   REDINGTON, 
ANDREW  B.    HULL, 

Committee. 


MORGAN  REDMOND  KAVANAGH. 

Died  at  La  Grange,  Illinois,   May  25,   1901. 

ON  Saturday  afternoon,  May  25th,  Morgan  Redmond 
Kavanagh,  on  his  way  to  his  home  at  La  Grange, 
Illinois,  fell   in    descending    a  stairway    at    Union 
Station,  sustaining  injuries  which  resulted  in  his  death 
at  10  o'clock.      His  wife  and  son  were  at  his  bedside  at 
Presbyterian  Hospital. 

Mr.  Kavanagh  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ,  on  Sep- 
tember 14,  1852.  His  father,  from  whom  he  derived  his 
eligibility  for  membership  in  the  Loyal  Legion,  was  John 
Kavanagh,  Captain  Sixty-third  New  York  Infantry, 
United  States  Volunteers,  who  was  killed  in  action  at 
Antietam,  Maryland,  on  September  17,  1862.  Our 
friend  was  a  worthy  son  of  a  brave  and  distinguished 

613 


614  MEMORIALS. 

soldier,  was  a  courteous  gentleman,  a  staunch  friend  and 
a  universal  favorite  with  all  who  knew  him.  Seven  years 
of  travel  in  Europe  and  residence  in  the  far  East  broad- 
ened his  views  of  life,  familiarized  him  with  the  oriental 
world  and  enhanced  his  love  for  America. 

Mr.  Kavanagh  was  married  on  September  7,  1882, 
to  Miss  Jessie  May  Camp  of  Connecticut.  He  leaves 
with  her  two  sons  and  a  daughter  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a 
father's  love,  a  guide  and  protector  who  was  always  and 
ever  tender  and  true.  He  sleeps  his  last  sleep  on  a 
beautiful  wooded  hillside  near  Hinsdale. 

SIMEON  H.  CRANE, 
J.  HAMILTON  BELL, 
MILTON  B.  MILLER, 

Committee. 


APPENDIX. 

The  following  Memorial  of  Companion  Major  William 
McKinley,  President  of  the  United  States,  who  was 
affiliated  with  the  Commandery  of  the  State  of  Ohio, 
and  died  at  Buffalo,  New  York,  September  14,  1901, 
is,  by  vote  of  the  Commandery,  appended  hereto. 

WILLIAM   McKINLEY, 

ORESIDENT  of  the  United  States,  Commander-in- 
S]T  Chief  of  its  Army  and  Navy,  our  Companion  in  the 
— *  Civil  War,  and  a  member  of  our  Order,  was  assassi- 
nated on  September  6,  1901,  and  died  at  Buffalo,  New 
York,  on  September  14,  1901.  The  members  of  the  Illi- 
nois Commandery  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  desire  to  unite  with  their  fellow  citizens  and  the 
people  and  rulers  of  all  civilized  nations  in  expression  of 
deep  sorrow  and  agony  of  soul  at  the  manner  of  his 
wounding  and  death,  and  to  join  in  the  universal  tribute 
to  Ihe  value  of  his  public  services  and  appreciation  of  the 
sacred  beauty  of  his  private  character. 

The  life  of  Major  McKinley  was  an  open  book  easily 
read  by  all  men.  His  advancement  to  the  most  exalted 
position  in  the  gift  of  the  Nation  was  the  result  of  no 
accident  or  sudden  caprice  of  popular  favor.  He  grew  in 

615 


6l6  APPENDIX. 

opportunity  and  usefulness  of  service  as  grows  a  mighty 
oak.  His  progress  from  humble  position  to  the  highest, 
was  a  gradual  but  sure  ascent,  without  a  break  in  its  up- 
ward course.  With  simple,  child-like  trust  in  God  he 
met  every  responsibility  of  advancing  stations,  with  un- 
flinching courage,  and  so  discharged  his  duties,  that  his 
name  will  be  loved  and  revered  until  time  shall  be  no 
more. 

Let  us  place  upon  our  records  the  briefest  possible 
sketch  of  his  steady  advancement  from  obscurity  to  fame. 

He  was  born  on  January  29,  1843,  at  Niles,  Trumbull 
County,  Ohio.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War, 
when  only  eighteen  years  of  age,  on  June  n,  1861,  he 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  E  of  the  Twenty-third 
Ohio  Regiment  of  Infantry.  On  April  15,  1862,  he  was 
made  Commissary  Sergeant  of  his  regiment,  and  in 
recognition  of  an  act  of  service  and  bravery,  such  as  no 
other  Commissary  Sergeant  ever  performed  for  his  com- 
rades on  the  field  of  battle,  he  was  commissioned  Sec- 
ond Lieutenant  of  Company  D  on  September  23,  1862. 
He  was  promoted  to  be  First  Lieutenant  of  Company  E 
on  February  7,  1863;  Captain  of  Company  G  on  July  25, 
1864;  brevetted  Major  for  gallantry  in  several  actions  on 
March  13,  1865,  and  was  mustered  out  of  service  on  July 
26,  1865.  He  was  an  active  participant  in  every  battle 
in  which  his  regiment  was  engaged.  He  was  only  twenty- 
two  years  of  age  when  he  returned  home  and  began  his 
career  in  civil  life.  He  studied  law  and  began  its  prac- 
tice in  Canton,  Stark  County,  Ohio.  In  1869  he  was 
elected  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Stark  County,  as  a  re- 
publican in  a  strong  democratic  county.  He  was  renomi- 
nated  by  his  party  in  1871,  but  was  defeated  by  his  demo- 
cratic opponent.  In  1876  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  in  Congress,  and  was  re- 


APPENDIX.  617 

elected  every  succeeding  two  years  until  1890,  when  by 
a  successful  gerrymander  of  his  district  boundaries  he 
was  defeated.  In  June,  1891,  he  was  unanimously  nomi- 
nated by  the  Republican  Convention  as  candidate  for 
Governor  of  Ohio,  and  was  elected.  In  1893  he  was 
unanimously  renominated  for  the  same  office  and  re- 
elected  by  more  than  eighty  thousand  majority. 

His  term  of  office  as  Governor  of  Ohio  ended  in  De- 
cember, 1895.  In  June,  1896,  he  received  the  nomina- 
tion of  the  National  Republican  Convention,  which  met 
at  St.  Louis,  for  President  of  the  United  States.  He  was 
elected  and  after  the  service  of  one  term  he  was  unani- 
mously renominated  by  acclamation  for  the  same  office 
by  the  Convention  which  met  in  Philadelphia  in  June, 
1900.  He  was  re-elected,  and  began  his  second  term  as 
President  of  the  United  States  on  March  4,  1901,  which 
was  ended  by  the  fatal  bullet  of  the  assassin  on  Septem- 
ber 14  of  this  year. 

The  record  of  public  lives  in  any  country  will  scarcely 
show  forty  years  of  more  continuous  service,  faithfully 
rendered  and  continually  approved,  than  that  of  William 
McKinley,  from  the  time  he  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier 
in  the  Civil  War,  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  to  the  be- 
ginning of  his  second  term  as  President  of  the  United 
States  and  his  untimely  death  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight. 

This  is  not  the  time  or  place  to  speak  of  his  adminis- 
tration of  the  high  offices  he  has  been  called  to  fill.  The 
records  thereof  are  indelibly  written  in  the  history  of  our 
country. 

We  cannot  find  language  adequate  to  express  our 
horror  at,  and  detestation  of  the  crime  which  took  his 
life.  The  records  of  criminal  action  relate  no  instance 
of  murder  so  causeless  and  atrociously  wicked. 

President  Lincoln  was  murdered  by  an  assassin  whose 


6l8  APPENDIX. 

soul  was  fired  by  the  passions  of  the  rebellion.  To  the 
perpetrator  of  the  crime  it  was  part  of  the  war.  Presi- 
dent Garfield  was  shot  by  a  lunatic  who  thus  sought  to 
avenge  a  fancied  personal  wrong.  It  was  an  act  of  pri- 
vate vengeance.  The  murderer  of  our  lamented  Com- 
panion was  driven  to  the  act  by  no  sense  of  public  or  pri- 
vate wrong.  With  deliberate  purpose,  guided  by  shrewd 
intelligence,  but  with  no  personal  malice,  he  joined  the 
mass  of  his  fellow  citizens  who  were  paying  tribute  of 
love  and  affection  to  the  man  of  pure  and  loftiest  char- 
acter, who  had  so  worthily  discharged  the  duties  of  his 
great  trust,  and  approaching  with  one  hand  extended  in 
symbol  of  friendship,  shot  him  to  the  death.  With  mad- 
ness inconceivable  by  us,  that  fatal  shot  was  fired  at  our 
Companion  as  the  representative  of  all  righteous  govern- 
ment in  the  earth.  It  was  an  attack  upon  the  dignity 
and  sovereignty  of  the  people,  manifested  in  organized 
society  and  the  divinely  ordered  institution  of  govern- 
ment among  men. 

When  still  a  mere  boy  Major  McKinley  voluntarily 
offered  the  sacrifice  of  his  life,  if  need  be,  to  save  this 
government  of  the  people  from  destruction.  That  young 
life  was  spared  that  he  might,  by  his  wisdom  and  firm- 
ness of  purpose  in  peace  and  in  war,  exalt  the  nation  to 
the  highest  measure  of  prosperity  at  home,  and  honor 
among  the  brotherhood  of  nations  in  the  earth.  Hon- 
ored as  few  men  have  ever  been,  successively  by  the  citi- 
zens of  his  city,  county,  district,  state  and  nation,  at 
every  step  promoted  higher  in  positions  of  trust,  he  was 
faithful  in  all;  and  at  last,  when  crowned  with  the  highest 
honor  which  the  entire  nation  could  confer,  that  sacrifice 
of  life  so  freely  offered  and  refused  in  his  youth  for  the 
maintainance  of  our  one  government  was  accepted  in  the 
cause  of  all  government  among  men. 


APPENDIX.  619 

No  language  can  be  extravagant  which  speaks  of  the 
virtues  of  our  departed  Companion.  Statesmen,  orators 
and  poets  have  striven  to  give  adequate  expression  to 
our  admiring  appreciation  of  them.  He  was  an  honest, 
sincere,  earnest  and  religious  man.  He  was  a  dutiful 
son,  a  patriotic  and  brave  soldier,  an  upright  and  faithful 
citizen,  a  most  tender  and  loving  husband;  and  truthful, 
courteous,  moral  and  clean  in  every  relation  in  life. 

"  Let  his  example  stand 
Colossal,  seen  of  every  land; 
And  make  the  soldier  firm,  the  statesman  pure, 
Till  in  all  lands  and  through  all  human  story 
The  path  of  duty  be  the  way  to  glory." 

He  died  a  soldier's  death.  The  Christian  fortitude  and 
courage  with  which  he  approached  the  end  of  life,  lifted 
the  whole  world  nearer  to  God.  Never  before  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  world  did  a  nation  with  such  uplift  of  love  and 
devotion  pause  in  all  its  activities  at  the  tomb  of  one 
man,  and  with  uncovered  heads  and  silent  meditation, 
endeavor  to  become  reconciled  to  the  will  of  God.  Who 
can  tell  what  will  be  the  fruitage  of  that  sermon  from 
the  mount  of  his  great  sacrifice,  listened  to,  and  solemnly 
pondered  by  all  the  world,  "It  is  God's  way,  not  ours, 
let  His  will  be  done."  Wondering  still  at  the  awful 
mystery  of  that  way,  may  God  help  us  in  humble  sub- 
mission to  say,  "Let  His  Will  Be  Done." 

JOSEPH  B.   LEAKE, 
GEO.   K.   DAUCHY, 
C.   F.   MATTESON, 
HORATIO  L.   WAIT, 
WILLIAM  VOCKE, 

Committee. 


INDEX. 


Page 

Abbott,  Abial  Ralph 78 

Abdill,  Edward  Connell. 582 

Adair,  Addison  Augustus 487 

Adams,  Albert  Egerton. 265 

Adams,  Axel  Smedberg. 324 

Andreas,  Alfred  Theodore 493 

Avery,  William 296 

Ayers,  Henry  Payson 196 

Baldwin,  James  Adams 587 

Barry,  George  Henry no 

Blake,  Samuel  Coleman 317 

Bliven,  Charles  Edward 292 

Bogue,  Roswell  Griswold 167 

Bosley,  Daniel  Webster 441 

Boutell,  Lewis  Henry 420 

Bowen,  Edwin  Anson 481 

Bradley,  David  Cleland 23 

Brady,  George  Keyports 423 

Bundy,  John  Curtis 127 

Burdsal,  Caleb  Southard 146 

Butler,  Thaddeus  Joseph   339 

Candee,  George  William 375 

Capron,  Albert  Banfield 607 

Capron,  Thadeus  Hurlbut 76 

Card,  Joseph  Phelps 204 

Chandler,  George 25 

Chapin,  Edward  Southland.  . . .   434 

Clapp,  Joseph 136 

Clarke,  Haswell  Cordis 574 

Clarke,  Thomas  Cordis 53 

Clarke,  William  Edwin 361 

Clarke,  William  Edwin,  Jr 202 

Clendenin,  David  Ramsay 224 

Cornish,  Standish  Vorce 426 

Corse,  Edwards    144 

Courtney,  Michael  Lewis   20 

Crooke,  William  Dawson 183 


Page. 

Davis,  Charles  Wilder ...   403 

Davis,  George  Royal 454 

Dean,  Thomas 107 

Deardoff,  David  Porter    515 

DeHaven,  Joseph  Edwin 7 

deTrobriand,  Philip  Regis  Denis,  334 

DeWolf ,  Henry 157 

Dickey,  Theophilus  Lyle 17 

Drury,  Lucius  Hollenbeck 12 

Ducat,  Arthur  Charles 275 

Dustin,  Daniel. .    122 

Dutton,  Everell  Fletcher 525 

Dyer,  Clarence  Hopkins.      ....    192 

Dyer,  George  Randolph 247 

Dyer,  Reuben  Fredson 272 

Earle,  Charles  Warrington.  . . .    160 

Edwards,   Arthur 589 

Erickson,  Christian 485 

Ewen,  Warren 112 

Farrar,  Henry  Weld 8 

Farrar,  Samuel  Franklin 394 

Fidlar,  John  Bines 322 

Fitch,  John  Adams 72 

Fitzwilliam,   Francis  Julius.  .  . .   468 

Flint,  Franklin  Foster 105 

Frank,  Mayer 251 

Fullerton,  Thomas  Coxey 188 

Gardner,  Peter  Guy 543 

Gile,  David  Herrick 354 

Goodbrake,  Christopher 90 

Gray,  Albert  Zabriskie 56 

Gresham,  Walter  Quinlin 240 

Greusel,  Nicholas 287 

Hale,  Charles  Reuben 563 

Hamilton,  Benjamin  Brown. ...   206 

Hamilton,  John  Brown 413 

Hand,  Peter 462 


(621) 


622 


INDEX. 


Page. 

Hanna,  Robert  Barlow 118 

Harmon,  Joseph  Warren 505 

Haven,  Samuel  Rush 66 

High,  James  Lambert 388 

Hitchcock,  Frank 234 

Hobart,  Andrew  Jackson 263 

Howard,  John  Edwin 519 

Hoyt,  Henry  William  Betley. ..  81 

Hunt,  George 585 

Hutchinson,  James  Withington,  343 

Jackson,   Huntington  Wolcott. .  566 

James,  William  Andrew 172 

Johnson,  Hosmer  Allen 83 

Jones,  Marcellus  Ephraim 560 

Kavanagh,  Morgan  Redmond.  .  613 

Kingsbury,  Ezra  Wolcott 490 

Kittoe,  Edward  Dominicus 38 

Knickerbocker,  Henry  Mabbett,  10 

Knox,  Edward  Burgin 63 

Lawton,  George  Whitfield 30 

Lewis,  James 444 

Lewis.  Robert  Henry 74 

Locke,  Joseph  Litchfield 437 

Logan,  John  Alexander   28 

Loomis,  John  Mason 534 

Luff.  William  Merritt 198 

Lyster,  William  John 346 

Martin,  James  Porter 221 

Matteson,  Asa  Abraham .    268 

McAllister,  Edward 549 

McClelland,  George  Pressly. .  . .  418 

McClurg,  Alexander  Caldwell. .  597 

McEntee,  Stuart 330 

McGuire,  John  Francis 497 

McKinley,  William 615 

McNulta,  John 500 

McVicker,  James  Hubert 279 

Mead,  William  Gale 139 

Means,  Archibald 371 

Meyers.  Charles  Washington...  365 

Montgomery,  William  Adam...  253 

Morgan,  Francis 32 

Morgan,  William  Potwin 290 


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Neff,  James  Irwin 148 

Newlin,  George  Elkins 509 

Newton,  Don  Carlos 154 

Noble,  Henry  Theophilus 97 

Nowlan,  Henry  James 397 

Ogden,  William  Langworthy. ..  171 

Oliver,  John  Young 327 

Palmer,  George  Henry 593 

Patrick,  John  Joseph  Ravenscrof  t  228 

Pease,  Phineas 152 

Phelps,  Alonzo  Jefferson 348 

Plummer,  Samuel  Craig 521 

Porter,  Henry  Thomas 352 

Post,  Philip  Sidney 212 

Preston,  Everett  Bruce 237 

Price,  Edward  Root 546 

Puterbaugh,  Sabin  D 129 

Rauch,  John  Henry 175 

Reid,  John  Gardiner 101 

Rhodes,  Charles  Daniel 88 

Richards,  Alonzo  Van  Ness. ...  '86 

Risser,  Abraham  Frank 208 

Root,  George  Frederick 249 

Ross,  Leonard  Fulton 579 

Roper,  George  Stevens 309 

Roundy,  Daniel  Curtis 332 

Russell,  Martin  James 529 

Scott,  Lemuel  Linnear 358 

Sexton,  James  Andrew 429 

Sherer,  Samuel  Baldwin 125 

Skinner,  Mark 33 

Smith,  Arthur  Arnold 553 

Smith,  George  Washington 381 

Smith,  John  Eugene 305 

Sperry,  Anson 60 

Stiles,  Israel  Newton 217 

Stout,  Alexander  Miller 259 

Stowe,  William  Page   270 

Strong,  William  Emerson.  •.  .  . .  93 

Taylor,  William  Henry 299 

Thompson,  John  Leverett 49 

Thomson,  Frank  M 231 

Towne,  Orrin  Charles 283 


INDEX. 


623 


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Troy,  Lewis  Lucas 464 

Trurabull,  James  Lewis 180 

Underwood,  BenjaminWinslow,   395 

Waite,  Charles 377 

Walker,  John  Crawford 398 

Wallace,  Thomas 194 

Walworth,  Nathan  Halbert. . . .   132 
Washburne,  Elihu  Benjamin.. .     41 

Waterman,  Richard 477 

Welch,  Deming  Norris 15 


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White,  Frank  Harwood 138 

White,  James  Gushing 164 

White,  Julius 69 

Williams,  Abram 301 

Winterbotham,  John  Russell.. .  115 

Wood,  Joseph  Hooker 556 

Woods,  Arthur  Tannett 141 

Worthington,  Edward  Stanley..  368 

Wright,  Thomas  Seaman   178 


